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N6182M

Hooper Edward R MAXAIR DRIFTER MU582

Valid Ohio

N6182M is a Hooper Edward R MAXAIR DRIFTER MU582, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1996. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Rk Air LLC, an LLC in Shreve, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 20, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 8, 1996.

Aircraft

Maker
Hooper Edward R
Model
MAXAIR DRIFTER MU582
Serial number
0737
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
Seats
2
Year built
1996
Transponder code
A80F20 (octal 52007440)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 20, 2024
Expires
February 28, 2031
Last FAA action
February 20, 2024
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · August 8, 1996
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00705861

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rk Air LLC
Type
LLC
Address
11277 Township Road 516
Shreve, OH 44676-9405

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 2

1993-04-27Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 206L-4 · exported to Poland · Valid registration
—Maule M-5-235C · N-number assigned but not yet registered

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N6182M, 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 Rk Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 20, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 8, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0737 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N6182M was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 206L-4 (serial 52012, cancelled April 27, 1993); Maule M-5-235C (serial 7186C, cancelled date not given). 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 N6182M. 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