Cessna 182S
N68DS is a Cessna 182S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Wanaque, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 7, 2005 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 10, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 182S · all 182Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 18280033
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A9013A (octal 52200472)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 7, 2005
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 10, 1997
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00856441
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sichak Stephen JR
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 15 Reservoir Dr
Wanaque, NJ 07465-2415 - Co-owners
- Sichak Mary Jo
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N68DS, 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 Sichak Stephen JR, a co-owned, certificate issued September 7, 2005, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 10, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18280033 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N68DS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Shewmaker Darryl D BD 5 (serial 0014, cancelled July 19, 1994). 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 N68DS: Accident on May 3, 1992 at Castroville, TX: serious injuries, destroyed. 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: Shewmaker BD5 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN AIRCRAFT CONTROL DURING THE FLARE. FACTORS WERE THE ENGAGEMENT OF THE PROPELLER FEATHERING SYSTEM AND THE PILOT'S TOTAL LACK OF EXPERIENCE IN TYPE AIRCRAFT AND THE SLIPPED PROPELLER PITCH CHANGE SYSTEM.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW92LA125 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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