Cessna 182R
N9538E is a Cessna 182R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1984. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Northwoods Air LLC, an LLC in Orono, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 29, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 6, 1984.
Where is it now Last seen Sunday at 12:24 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 182R · all 182Rs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe 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
- 18268422
- 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
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1984
- Transponder code
- AD4341 (octal 53241501)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 29, 2024
- Expires
- July 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- July 29, 2024
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 6, 1984
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00921784
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Northwoods Air LLC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1 Great Brook Dr
Orono, ME 04473-3065
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
Connections how N9538E links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 182 Skylane 11,832 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
- Continental O-470 series 12,779 aircraft with this engine series · 230 hp
- Northwoods Air LLC 19 aircraft in the fleet
- Orono, ME 36 aircraft registered in this town
- Maine 1,425 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 182 Skylane 64 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 182 Skylane 1,189 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 182 Skylane 748 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental O-470 series 23 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental O-470 series 148 reports since 1995
- Where N9538E is now · Last seen Sunday at 12:24 pm.
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The public federal record on N9538E, 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 Northwoods Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 29, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 6, 1984, consistent with the 1984 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18268422 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9538E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 11AC (serial 11AC-1175, cancelled June 6, 1970). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N9538E. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data