{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1965-02-26","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-10-24","city":"DOVER","country_code":"US","county_code":"001","cruise_speed_mph":119,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17026","engine_horsepower":230,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"O-470 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-10-24","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2072718","mode_s_code":"50306440","mode_s_hex":"A18D20","model":"182H","n_number":"N1998X","name":"BLUE SKY POWERS N1998X LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Smithfield","damage":"SUBS","date":"2025-10-04","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA26LA009","probable_cause":"Maintenance personnel\u2019s improper rigging of the elevator trim system, which resulted in a hard landing. Contributing was the maintenance personnel and pilot\u2019s failure to perform adequate post maintenance/preflight inspections.","registration":"N1998X","state":"RI","summary":"Accident on October 4, 2025 at Smithfield, RI: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N1998X is a Cessna 182H, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1965. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Blue Sky Powers N1998X LLC, an LLC in Dover, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 24, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 26, 1965.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Blue Sky Powers N1998X LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 24, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated February 26, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18256098 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N1998X according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N1998X: Accident on October 4, 2025 at Smithfield, RI: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":4,"serial_number":"18256098","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"DE","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"8 THE GRN STE B","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00013130","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N1998X","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1965,"zip":"199013618"}