Cessna 182J
N3537F is a Cessna 182J, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Burke, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 8, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 7:58 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 182J · all 182Js 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
- 18257537
- 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 · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 119 mph
- Transponder code
- A3F345 (octal 50771505)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 8, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 8, 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
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00012843
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Watson James L
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 6700 Passageway Pl
Burke, VA 22015-4239 - Co-owners
- Davis Benjamin P / Duke Andrew M / Mansfield Brian J / Brownlee Robert B
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 N3537F links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 182 Skylane 11,834 registered
- Cessna 72,685 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental O-470 series 12,780 aircraft with this engine series · 230 hp
- Burke, VA 13 aircraft registered in this town
- Virginia 5,975 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 Continental O-470 series 23 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental O-470 series 148 reports since 1995
- Where N3537F is now · Last seen yesterday at 7:58 pm.
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The public federal record on N3537F, 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 Watson James L, a co-owned, certificate issued October 8, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18257537 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3537F 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 N3537F. 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 November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data