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N7480Q

Cessna 182P

Valid Illinois

N7480Q is a Cessna 182P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Decatur Aero Club INC, a corporation in Decatur, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 13, 1988 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 26, 1972.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
182P · all 182Ps and related versions
Serial number
18261120
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1972
Cruising speed
120 mph
Transponder code
AA12A9 (octal 52411251)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 13, 1988
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
February 22, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · April 26, 1972
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00912597

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Decatur Aero Club INC
Type
Corporation
Address
C/O Dennis Trump
3475 W Center St
Decatur, IL 62526-9494

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N7480Q, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Decatur Aero Club INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 13, 1988, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated April 26, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18261120 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N7480Q according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N7480Q. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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