Cessna 182M
N71331 is a Cessna 182M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kanab, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 16, 1994 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 7, 1969.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 182M · all 182Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 18259582
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 119 mph
- Transponder code
- A98A0D (octal 52305015)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 16, 1994
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 7, 1969
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00581067
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Baird David W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 394 W Los Barancos Ln
Kanab, UT 84741-3311
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.
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The public federal record on N71331, 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 Baird David W, an individual, certificate issued June 16, 1994, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 7, 1969, consistent with the 1969 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18259582 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N71331 according to the deregistered file. [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 N71331: Accident on August 30, 2025 at Kanab, 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 182M · operated under 091
The pilot’s improper landing flare, which resulted in a hard landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data