Cessna 182B
N2728B is a Cessna 182B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1959. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Big Island Gravity LLC, an LLC in Kapaau, Hawaii. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 17, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 24, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 182B · all 182Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 52028
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1959
- Cruising speed
- 119 mph
- Transponder code
- A2B15C (octal 50530534)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 17, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 17, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 24, 1982
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00970572
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Big Island Gravity LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 664
Kapaau, HI 96755-0664
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N2728B, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Big Island Gravity LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 17, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 24, 1982, 23 years after the 1959 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 52028 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2728B according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
2 NTSB records under N2728B: Accident on August 28, 2024 at Hawi, HI: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on October 15, 2005 at Mokelumne Hill, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 182B · operated under 091
The airplane’s loss of engine power due to carburetor ice that formed during a long descent, contributing to the outcome is the pilot’s delayed use of carburetor heat.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 182B · operated under 091
the pilot's improper flare resulting in a hard landing. A related factor was gusty wind conditions.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data