Cessna 182S
N285EA is a Cessna 182S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 4 seats. It is registered to South Carolina Forestry Commission, a government body in Columbia, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 15, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 9, 2024.
Where is it now Last seen Thursday at 2:58 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 182S · all 182Ss 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 182 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
- 18280524
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AB1A5 · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A2E0F3 (octal 50560363)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 15, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2025
- 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 9, 2024
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00655692
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- South Carolina Forestry Commission
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 5500 Broad River Rd
Columbia, SC 29212-3543
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N285EA links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 182 Skylane 11,834 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 IO-540-AB1A5 774 aircraft with this engine series · 230 hp
- Type certificate 3A13 · held by Textron Aviation INC
- South Carolina Forestry Commission 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Columbia, SC 93 aircraft registered in this town
- Columbia Metro Airport · CAE
- Jim Hamilton L B Owens Airport · CUB
- South Carolina 3,113 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 182 Skylane 64 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 182 Skylane 1,189 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 182 Skylane 748 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-540-AB1A5 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-540-AB1A5 138 reports since 1995
- Where N285EA is now · Last seen Thursday at 2:58 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N285EA.json.
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The public federal record on N285EA, 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 South Carolina Forestry Commission, a government body, certificate issued September 15, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 9, 2024, 25 years after the 1999 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 18280524 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N285EA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 737-56N (serial 28565, cancelled November 4, 2015). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N285EA. 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 October 28, 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