Cessna 182D
N8966X is a Cessna 182D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1961. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Hotrod 182 LLC, an LLC in Rayville, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 18, 2024 and expires on November 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 6, 1961.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 182D · all 182Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 18253366
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 119 mph
- Transponder code
- AC5EDE (octal 53057336)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 18, 2024
- Expires
- November 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- November 18, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 6, 1961
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00391571
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hotrod 182 LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1230 Highway 425
Rayville, LA 71269-7369
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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 N8966X, 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 Hotrod 182 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 18, 2024, expires November 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated April 6, 1961, consistent with the 1961 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18253366 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8966X according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8966X. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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 September 30, 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