Cessna 182G
N3261S is a Cessna 182G, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Big Island Gravity LLC, an LLC in Kapaau, Hawaii. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 30, 2025 and expires on January 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 9, 1964.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 182G · all 182Gs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18255761
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 119 mph
- Transponder code
- A38726 (octal 50703446)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 30, 2025
- Expires
- January 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- January 30, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 9, 1964
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00431943
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Big Island Gravity LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 664
Kapaau, HI 96755-0664
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N3261S, 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 Big Island Gravity LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 30, 2025, expires January 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18255761 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3261S 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]
1 NTSB record under N3261S: Accident on July 3, 2025 at Kona, HI: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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 182G · operated under 091
On July 3, 2025, about 0657 Hawaii-Aleutian standard time, a Cessna 182G airplane, N3261S, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Kona, Hawaii. The pilot sustained minor injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 positioning flight. The pilot reported that the flight was a repositioning flight from the Upolu Airport (UPP), Hawi, Hawaii to the Kona International Airport (KOA). The pilot said that the airplane had 21 gallons of fuel on board. He sumped the fuel tanks before departure and the fuel was clean, and the predepartu…
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC25LA063 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data