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.
Where is it now Last seen Saturday at 2:36 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 182M · all 182Ms 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
- 18259718
- 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 · Cont Motor IO-520-D · 300 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 119 mph
- Transponder code
- A995E5 (octal 52312745)
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, 2001
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Research and development; Market surveyFAA certificate purpose code 16 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 12, 2008
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00351237
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hamilton Thomas S DBA
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1869 Sanborn Creek Rd
Priest River, ID 83856-9619 - Co-owners
- Cheyanna CO
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 N71685 links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 182 Skylane 11,834 registered
- Cessna 72,682 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-520-D 95 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Priest River, ID 31 aircraft registered in this town
- Priest River Airport · 1S6
- Idaho 4,199 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 Continental IO-520-D 35 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-520-D 283 reports since 1995
- Where N71685 is now · Last seen Saturday at 2:36 pm.
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data