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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Cessna T182T
N285CP is a Cessna T182T, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2010. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Civil Air Patrol, a corporation in Maxwell Afb, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 16, 2010 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 1, 2010.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- T182T · all T182Ts and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna T182 Turbo Skylane family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- T18209010
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming TIO-540-AK1A · 235 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2010
- Transponder code
- A2E0CE (octal 50560316)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 16, 2010
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 1, 2010
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01057375
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Civil Air Patrol
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 105 S Hansell St Bldg 714
Maxwell Afb, AL 36112-5937
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.
Connections how N285CP links to the rest of the register
- Cessna T182 Turbo Skylane 935 registered
- Cessna 72,684 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming TIO-540-AK1A 508 aircraft with this engine series · 235 hp
- Type certificate 3A13 · held by Textron Aviation INC
- Civil Air Patrol 468 aircraft in the fleet
- Maxwell Afb, AL 572 aircraft registered in this town
- Alabama 4,349 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna T182 Turbo Skylane 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna T182 Turbo Skylane 56 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna T182 Turbo Skylane 393 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming TIO-540-AK1A 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming TIO-540-AK1A 26 reports since 1995
- Where N285CP is now · Last seen Friday at 1:01 pm.
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The public federal record on N285CP, 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 Civil Air Patrol, a corporation, certificate issued November 16, 2010, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 1, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial T18209010 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N285CP 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N285CP. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data