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N9788H

Cessna 182R

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesColorado

N9788H is a Cessna 182R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 4 seats. It is registered to United States Air Force, a government body in Usaf Academy, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 13, 2007 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 26, 1981.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
182R · all 182Rs and related versions
Serial number
18268025
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1981
Transponder code
ADA4D5 (octal 53322325)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
June 13, 2007
Expires
January 31, 2028
Last FAA action
January 8, 2026
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 26, 1981
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00572641

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
United States Air Force
Type
GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
Address
Usafa Flight Training Center
9222 Airfield Dr
Usaf Academy, CO 80840

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

1956-02-14Fairchild M-62A-3 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N9788H, 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 United States Air Force, a government body, certificate issued June 13, 2007, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated August 26, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18268025 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N9788H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild M-62A-3 (serial FT-822, cancelled February 14, 1956). 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 N9788H. 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