Cessna 182S
N7278S 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 Engineers Flying Club INC, a corporation in Bethany, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 14, 2021 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 28, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 182S · all 182Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 18280506
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A9C10E (octal 52340416)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 14, 2021
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 28, 1999
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00425672
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Engineers Flying Club INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 371
Bethany, OK 73008-0371
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N7278S, 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 Engineers Flying Club INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 14, 2021, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 28, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18280506 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7278S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150H (serial 15067978, cancelled May 30, 1972). 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 N7278S: Accident on July 22, 2000 at Millard, NE: 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 182S · operated under 091
the improper recovery from the bounced landing and the porpoise encountered by the pilot. Factors were the misjudged flare by the pilot and the runway light.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI00LA217 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