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A Cessna 182 Skylane, the same model family as N8439L
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N8439L

Cessna 182S

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesMissouri

N8439L 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 an individual in Cuba, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 15, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
182S · all 182Ss and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The 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
18280622
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
Seats
4
Year built
1999
Transponder code
AB8E9C (octal 52707234)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
September 15, 2025
Expires
September 30, 2032
Last FAA action
September 15, 2025
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00205952

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Iverson Thomas R
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
4896 Highway Pp
Cuba, MO 65453-5103

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

—Cessna 172I · N-number assigned but not yet registered

Connections how N8439L links to the rest of the register

Design
  • Cessna 182 Skylane 11,834 registered
  • Cessna 72,684 aircraft on the register
  • Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
  • Type certificate 3A13 · held by Textron Aviation INC
Place
Airworthiness
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N8439L.json.

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N8439L, 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 Iverson Thomas R, an individual, certificate issued September 15, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18280622 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N8439L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172I (serial 17256639, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N8439L: Accident on August 15, 1984 at Brockport, NY: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

NYC84FA275Accident on August 15, 1984 at Brockport, NY: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 17256639

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172I · operated under 091

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data