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N56CW

Textron Aviation Inc 182T

Valid Illinois

N56CW is a Textron Aviation Inc 182T, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2024. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Laurel Aviation INC, a corporation in Decatur, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 30, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 12, 2024. 3 documents are on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership), loan or lien (security agreement), loan release.

Aircraft

Maker
Textron Aviation Inc
Model
182T · all 182Ts and related versions
Serial number
18283256
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AB1A5 · 230 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2024
Transponder code
A724D8 (octal 51622330)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 30, 2024
Expires
December 31, 2031
Last FAA action
December 30, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · July 12, 2024
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01432226

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Laurel Aviation INC
Type
Corporation
Address
1717 E Garfield Ave
Decatur, IL 62526-5076

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 3

2026-09-24Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)
2026-09-24Loan or lien (security agreement)
2026-09-29Loan release

Earlier use of this number 2

2018-04-10Christopher Wilkening LM-5X-W · Valid registration
2011-07-13Whiting-Deems SUPER EMERAUDE CP328 · exported to Canada · Registration pending

Records check free · 2 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N56CW, 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 Laurel Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 30, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated July 12, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18283256 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N56CW was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Christopher Wilkening LM-5X-W (serial 2014-CW, cancelled April 10, 2018); Whiting-Deems SUPER EMERAUDE CP328 (serial 1, cancelled July 13, 2011). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

ATTENTIONRecent registry documents

1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 24, 2026), and 1 release. The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N56CW. 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