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N285EA

Cessna 182S

N285EA is a Cessna 182S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 4 seats. It is registered to South Carolina Forestry Commission, a government body in Columbia, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 15, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 9, 2024.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
182S
Serial number
18280524
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AB1A5 · 230 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1999
Transponder code
A2E0F3 (octal 50560363)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 15, 2025
Expires
September 30, 2032
Last FAA action
September 15, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · October 9, 2024
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00655692

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
South Carolina Forestry Commission
Type
Government
Address
5500 Broad River Rd
Columbia, SC 29212-3543

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

2015-11-04Boeing 737-56N · exported to Nigeria · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data