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N9173C

Cessna R182

Valid Illinois

N9173C is a Cessna R182, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mchenry, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 15, 2010 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 26, 1978.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
R182 · all R182s and related versions
Serial number
R18200436
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1978
Cruising speed
111 mph
Transponder code
ACB370 (octal 53131560)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 15, 2010
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 30, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · June 26, 1978
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00230941

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bettendorf Nicholas L
Type
Individual
Address
7804 Burr Oak Dr
Mchenry, IL 60050-6577

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Documents on file 0

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

Earlier use of this number 1

1962-11-27Cessna 180 · exported to Honduras · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N9173C, 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 Bettendorf Nicholas L, an individual, certificate issued April 15, 2010, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated June 26, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial R18200436 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N9173C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 180 (serial 31272, cancelled November 27, 1962). 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N9173C. 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 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