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N5157N

Cessna 182Q

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesIndiana

N5157N is a Cessna 182Q, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Ams Aviation LLC, an LLC in South Bend, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 24, 2015 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 15, 1980.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
182Q · all 182Qs and related versions
Serial number
18267549
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1980
Cruising speed
112 mph
Transponder code
A6775C (octal 51473534)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
July 24, 2015
Expires
July 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 26, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 15, 1980
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00072145

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Ams Aviation LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
Address
PO Box 1222
South Bend, IN 46624-1222

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

1972-01-17Boeing A75L3 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N5157N, 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 Ams Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 24, 2015, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated February 15, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18267549 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5157N was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing A75L3 (serial 75-7083, cancelled January 17, 1972). 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N5157N. 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 September 30, 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