Cessna 182S
N7111W is a Cessna 182S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Better Living Aviation INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 4, 2000 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 3, 1999.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Better Living Aviation, Inc., so it can be flown for hire.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 182S · all 182Ss and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe 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
- 18280550
- 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 IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A98254 (octal 52301124)
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 4, 2000
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 3, 1999
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00995742
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Better Living Aviation INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3422 Old Capitol Trail Pmb 312
Wilmington, DE 19808
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
Connections how N7111W links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 182 Skylane 11,834 registered
- Cessna 72,684 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Better Living Aviation, Inc. · charter operator
- Lycoming IO-540 series 4,222 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Type certificate 3A13 · held by Textron Aviation INC
- Better Living Aviation INC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Wilmington, DE 7,375 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,965 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 182 Skylane 64 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 182 Skylane 1,189 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 182 Skylane 748 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-540 series 49 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-540 series 316 reports since 1995
- Where N7111W is now · Last seen today at 12:06 pm.
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The public federal record on N7111W, 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 Better Living Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 4, 2000, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 3, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18280550 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7111W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-180 (serial 28902, cancelled October 16, 1992). 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]
2 NTSB records under N7111W: Accident on November 22, 2017 at Bolingbrook, IL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 30, 1989 at Dutch John, UT: no injuries, substantial damage. 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 182S · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during takeoff.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-180 · operated under 091
INADEQUATE COMPENSATION FOR THE WIND CONDITIONS BY THE PILOT, RESULTING IN A LOSS OF CONTROL DURING THE TAKEOFF GROUND RUN. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: THE UNFAVORABLE (VARIABLE/GUSTY) WIND CONDITION, AND THE HIGH VEGETATION AND TREE BESIDE THE RUNWAY.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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