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N277A

Reims Aviation CESSNA FR182

Valid Maine

N277A is a Reims Aviation CESSNA FR182, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hermon, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 6, 2014 and expires on February 28, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 5, 1997.

Aircraft

Maker
Reims Aviation
Model
CESSNA FR182
Serial number
F182-0042
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1979
Transponder code
A2C07D (octal 50540175)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 6, 2014
Expires
February 28, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · December 5, 1997
FAA region
New England
FAA record id
00846811

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sproul Wendell C
Type
Individual
Address
2391 Route 2
Hermon, ME 04401-0608

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1990-06-18Cessna 401 · N-number assigned but not yet registered

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N277A, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Sproul Wendell C, an individual, certificate issued February 6, 2014, expires February 28, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 5, 1997, 18 years after the 1979 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F182-0042 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N277A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 401 (serial 4010043, cancelled June 18, 1990). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N277A: Accident on August 3, 1989 at Grand Turk Isl.: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

MIA89WA212Accident on August 3, 1989 at Grand Turk Isl.: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 401 · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA89WA212 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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