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N438CP

Textron Aviation Inc 182T

Valid (manufacturer) Kansas

N438CP is a Textron Aviation Inc 182T, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2026. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Textron Aviation INC, a corporation in Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 4, 2026.

Aircraft

Maker
Textron Aviation Inc
Model
182T · all 182Ts and related versions
Serial number
18283345
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AB1A5 · 230 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2026
Transponder code
A54116 (octal 51240426)

Registration

Status
Valid, assigned to the manufacturer under its dealer certificate
Certificate issued
—
Expires
—
Last FAA action
November 20, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · June 4, 2026
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
01530971

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Textron Aviation INC
Type
Corporation
Address
1 Cessna Blvd
Wichita, KS 67215-1400

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

2018-01-19Cirrus Design Corp SR22 · Registration expired, pending cancellation

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N438CP, 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 Textron Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated June 4, 2026, consistent with the 2026 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18283345 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N438CP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cirrus Design Corp SR22 (serial 3258, cancelled January 19, 2018). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N438CP: Accident on October 17, 2011 at Danbury, CT: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

ERA12FA030Accident on October 17, 2011 at Danbury, CT: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 3258

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cirrus Design CORP SR22 · operated under 091

The pilot did not maintain clearance from a lighted tower during final approach in night visual conditions.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA12FA030 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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