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N779SP

Cessna 182R

N779SP is a Cessna 182R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1986. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Preferco LLC, an LLC in Fargo, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 28, 2018 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 5, 1986.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
182R · all 182Rs and related versions
Serial number
18268576
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1986
Transponder code
AA8C14 (octal 52506024)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 28, 2018
Expires
November 30, 2028
Last FAA action
June 23, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · May 5, 1986
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00210847

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Preferco LLC
Type
LLC
Address
4302 13Th Ave S Ste 4-375
Fargo, ND 58103

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N779SP, 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 Preferco LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 28, 2018, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated May 5, 1986, consistent with the 1986 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18268576 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N779SP 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 N779SP. 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