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N281AF

Cessna 182T

Valid Louisiana

N281AF is a Cessna 182T, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 4 seats. It is registered to State Of Louisiana, a government body in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 22, 2003 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 4, 2003.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
182T · all 182Ts and related versions
Serial number
18281189
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2003
Transponder code
A2D1B8 (octal 50550670)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 22, 2003
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 30, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · February 4, 2003
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00014129

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
State Of Louisiana
Type
Government
Address
5825 Florida Blvd Ste 6000
Baton Rouge, LA 70806-4259
Co-owners
Dept Of Agriculture & Forestry

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Documents on file 0

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

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N281AF, 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 State Of Louisiana, a government body, certificate issued April 22, 2003, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated February 4, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18281189 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N281AF according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N281AF. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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