Cessna 182M
N70885 is a Cessna 182M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Bates Ranches, a partnership in Condon, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 1, 2011 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 14, 1968.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 182M · all 182Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 18259406
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 119 mph
- Transponder code
- A975D4 (octal 52272724)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 1, 2011
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 14, 1968
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00780917
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bates Ranches
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- PO Box 104
Condon, OR 97823-0104 - Co-owners
- Bates Paul / Bates Samuel
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N70885, 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 Bates Ranches, a partnership, certificate issued December 1, 2011, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 14, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18259406 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N70885 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3C-65 (serial 17907, cancelled August 16, 1951). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N70885. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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