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Cessna 182S
N403SW is a Cessna 182S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Bsf Skylane LLC, an LLC in Buford, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 20, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 10, 2019.
Where is it now Last seen Thursday at 4:23 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 182S · all 182Ss 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
- 18280830
- 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 · Lycoming IO-540-AB1A5 · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A4B96B (octal 51134553)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 20, 2023
- Expires
- July 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- July 20, 2023
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 10, 2019
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00933635
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bsf Skylane LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1670 Patrick Mill Pl
Buford, GA 30518-2270
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
Connections how N403SW links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 182 Skylane 11,834 registered
- Cessna 72,684 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-540-AB1A5 774 aircraft with this engine series · 230 hp
- Type certificate 3A13 · held by Textron Aviation INC
- Bsf Skylane LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Buford, GA 24 aircraft registered in this town
- Georgia 8,801 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 Lycoming IO-540-AB1A5 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-540-AB1A5 138 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Warning System, activated · 2012-10-25
- Report filed on this aircraft: Light, inoperative · 2012-06-13
- Report filed on this aircraft: Spring, failed · 2012-05-23
- Where N403SW is now · Last seen Thursday at 4:23 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N403SW.json.
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The public federal record on N403SW, 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 Bsf Skylane LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 20, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. 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 18280830 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N403SW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Canadair CL-600-2B19 (serial 7028, cancelled July 17, 2013). 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 N403SW: Accident on September 8, 1994 at Burbank, CA: 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: Canadair CL600 · operated under 121
the ground crew's failure to follow company procedures. The failure of the operator to provide headsets to communicate with the flightcrew and the poor lighting conditions were factors in this accident.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data