Cessna R182
N3138C is a Cessna R182, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Turbo-Sphere INC, a corporation in Longmont, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 18, 2021 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 21, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- R182 · all R182s and related versions
- Serial number
- R18200239
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 111 mph
- Transponder code
- A35569 (octal 50652551)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 18, 2021
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 21, 1978
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00781523
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Turbo-Sphere INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 229 Airport Rd # H31A
Longmont, CO 80503-9600
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3138C, 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 Turbo-Sphere INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 18, 2021, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 21, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial R18200239 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3138C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech T-34A (serial G-738, cancelled July 12, 1965). 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]
1 NTSB record under N3138C: Accident on June 12, 2023 at Mccall, ID: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna R182 · operated under 091
Maintenance personnel's failure to properly torque and inspect the magneto hardware, which resulted in a partial loss of engine power.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR23FA225 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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