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N3781D

Cessna 182A

Valid Indiana

N3781D is a Cessna 182A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1957. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Avon, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 29, 1996 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
182A · all 182As and related versions
Serial number
34481
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1957
Cruising speed
119 mph
Transponder code
A45402 (octal 51052002)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 29, 1996
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00730144

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Helmer Douglas A
Type
Co-owned
Address
2168 Oldham Cir
Avon, IN 46123
Co-owners
Helmer Karen J

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N3781D, 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 Helmer Douglas A, a co-owned, certificate issued March 29, 1996, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 34481 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N3781D 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 N3781D. 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