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N8985X

Cessna 182D

Valid Illinois

N8985X is a Cessna 182D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in New Lenox, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 6, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 8, 1961.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
182D · all 182Ds and related versions
Serial number
18253385
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor I0-470 SERIES · 260 hp
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
119 mph
Transponder code
AC6629 (octal 53063051)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 6, 2023
Expires
October 31, 2030
Last FAA action
October 6, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · April 8, 1961
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00931511

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hill Jack
Type
Individual
Address
2512 Riivendell Dr
New Lenox, IL 60451-1328

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 · 4 clear

The public federal record on N8985X, 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 Hill Jack, an individual, certificate issued October 6, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18253385 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N8985X 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 N8985X. 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