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N96725

Cessna 182Q

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesAlabama

N96725 is a Cessna 182Q, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. 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 August 12, 1998 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 20, 1979.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
182Q · all 182Qs and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The 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
18266825
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
1979
Cruising speed
112 mph
Transponder code
AD78E3 (octal 53274343)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
August 12, 1998
Expires
January 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 14, 2023
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 · February 20, 1979
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00824180

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

1960-11-01Taylorcraft BC12-D · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Connections how N96725 links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Maxwell Afb, AL 572 aircraft registered in this town
  • Alabama 4,349 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N96725.json.

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The public federal record on N96725, 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 Civil Air Patrol INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 12, 1998, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated February 20, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18266825 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N96725 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Taylorcraft BC12-D (serial 9025, cancelled November 1, 1960). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N96725: Accident on August 31, 2002 at New Roads, LA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

FTW02LA246Accident on August 31, 2002 at New Roads, LA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 182-Q · operated under PUBU

The pilot's failure to maintain airspeed which resulted in a stall.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data