Cessna 182M
N71685 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 Priest River, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 4, 2001 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; market survey, dated September 12, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 182M · all 182Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 18259718
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-520-D · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 119 mph
- Transponder code
- A995E5 (octal 52312745)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 4, 2001
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development; Market survey · September 12, 2008
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00351237
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hamilton Thomas S DBA
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1869 Sanborn Creek Rd
Priest River, ID 83856-9619 - Co-owners
- Cheyanna CO
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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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N71685, 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 Hamilton Thomas S DBA, an individual, certificate issued January 4, 2001, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 12, 2008, 39 years after the 1969 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18259718 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N71685 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Luscombe 8A (serial 3112, cancelled December 8, 1949). 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 N71685: Accident on September 4, 1999 at Sandpoint, ID: 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 flare. Factors include a runway that sloped uphill, and the pilot's failure to familiarize himself with the destination airstrip prior to departure.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA99LA156 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