Cessna 182F
N3608U is a Cessna 182F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1963. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Homer, Alaska. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 23, 1963. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 182F · all 182Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18255008
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor I0-470 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1963
- Cruising speed
- 119 mph
- Transponder code
- A40FCF (octal 51007717)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pending
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 23, 1963
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00273083
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 519
Homer, AK 99603-0519
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 1
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The public federal record on N3608U, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 23, 1963, consistent with the 1963 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18255008 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3608U according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 1, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N3608U: Accident on June 29, 2025 at Nephi, UT: no 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 182F · operated under 091
A failure of the nose wheel steering shaft and subsequent rotation of the nosewheel which resulted in the collapse of the nose landing gear during landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR25LA193 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