Cessna 182R
N9656X is a Cessna 182R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1986. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Civil Air Patrol INC, a corporation in Maxwell Afb, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 10, 1995 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; forest; patrolling, dated August 24, 2006.
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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
- 18268580
- 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-U · 230 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1986
- Transponder code
- AD71F9 (octal 53270771)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 10, 1995
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- December 27, 2024
- Airworthiness
- MultipleFAA airworthiness class code 6 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Standard; Restricted; Forest; PatrollingFAA certificate purpose code 1345 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 24, 2006
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00700727
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Civil Air Patrol INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 105 S Hansell St
Maxwell Afb, AL 36112
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N9656X links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 182 Skylane 11,834 registered
- Cessna 72,677 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental O-470-U 56 aircraft with this engine series · 230 hp
- Civil Air Patrol INC 127 aircraft in the fleet
- Maxwell Afb, AL 572 aircraft registered in this town
- Alabama 4,353 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-U 26 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental O-470-U 128 reports since 1995
- Where N9656X is now · Last seen today at 11:38 am.
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The public federal record on N9656X, 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 Civil Air Patrol INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 10, 1995, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 24, 2006, 20 years after the 1986 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18268580 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9656X 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 N9656X. 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 November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data