Cessna 182Q
N978C 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 La Avioneta LLC, an LLC in Raymondville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 9, 2019 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 31, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 182Q · all 182Qs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18267017
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- ADA18F (octal 53320617)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 9, 2019
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- March 30, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 31, 1979
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00744040
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- La Avioneta LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 502
Raymondville, TX 78580-0502
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N978C, 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 La Avioneta LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 9, 2019, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 31, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18267017 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N978C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stinson 108-3 (serial 108-3978, cancelled May 30, 2013). 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]
1 NTSB record under N978C: Accident on April 9, 2022 at Hebbronville, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 182Q · operated under 091
The pilots improper landing flare which resulted in a hard landing and loss of airplane control.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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