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N2871R

Cessna 182K

Valid Virginia

N2871R is a Cessna 182K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1967. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Blue Ridge Flyers INC, a corporation in Leesburg, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 25, 2001 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 8, 1967.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
182K · all 182Ks and related versions
Serial number
18258471
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1967
Cruising speed
119 mph
Transponder code
A2EA87 (octal 50565207)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 25, 2001
Expires
July 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 26, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · September 8, 1967
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00390513

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Blue Ridge Flyers INC
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 2555
Leesburg, VA 20175

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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 N2871R, 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 Blue Ridge Flyers INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 25, 2001, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated September 8, 1967, consistent with the 1967 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18258471 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N2871R 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 N2871R. 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