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A Cessna 182 Skylane, the same model family as N698MC
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N698MC

Cessna 182S

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes

N698MC is a Cessna 182S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 4 seats. It is registered to , an LLC. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 24, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 21, 1998.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
182S · all 182Ss and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 182 Skylane family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
18280336
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1998
Transponder code
A94984 (octal 52244604)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
January 24, 2023
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
May 6, 2026
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 21, 1998
FAA region
—
FAA record id
00463626

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Withheld at the owner's request
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address

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.

Connections how N698MC links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
  • Lycoming IO-360 series 8,559 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
  • Type certificate 3A13 · held by Textron Aviation INC
Airworthiness
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N698MC.json.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N698MC, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, an LLC, certificate issued January 24, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 21, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18280336 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N698MC according to the deregistered file. [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 N698MC: Accident on December 26, 2017 at Santa Ana, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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

WPR18CA059Accident on December 26, 2017 at Santa Ana, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 182 · operated under 091

The pilot’s failure to follow ground control instructions and to see and avoid ground obstacles while taxiing.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data