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A Cessna 182 Skylane, the same model family as N8876X
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 3, 2026
N8876X

Cessna 182D

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesUtah

N8876X is a Cessna 182D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1960. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Salt Lake City, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 22, 2016 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated February 1, 1961.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
182D · all 182Ds 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
18253276
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 O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
4
Year built
1960
Cruising speed
119 mph
Transponder code
AC3B16 (octal 53035426)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
June 22, 2016
Expires
June 30, 2029
Last FAA action
August 11, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · February 1, 1961
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00261801

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bowen Gabriel J
Type
Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
1620 Wasatch Dr
Salt Lake City, UT 84108
Co-owners
Anderson Andrew e

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N8876X links to the rest of the register

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Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N8876X, 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 Bowen Gabriel J, a co-owned, certificate issued June 22, 2016, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated February 1, 1961, consistent with the 1960 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18253276 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N8876X 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 N8876X. 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 November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data