Plane Crash List

Cessna 182 accidents

The NTSB database holds 6,261 accidents and incidents involving the Cessna 182, recorded between 1964 to 2026. 1,042 of them were fatal (17%), and 2,089 people died.

The deadliest year was 1975, with 74 deaths.

The phase of flight recorded most often is landing (2,032 records).

Most of these records are from United States, Mexico and Brazil.

3,822 of these records have no coordinates in the source data, so they appear in the list below but not on the map.

6,261
Records
1,042
Fatal
2,089
Deaths
17%
Share fatal
1964 to 2026
Period
Show these on the map 2,439 of 6,261 have coordinates

By decade

1960s 1,417
1970s 1,768
1980s 1,072
1990s 709
2000s 600
2010s 440
2020s 255

Where these happened

United States 6,043 Mexico 73 Brazil 16 Canada 15 Venezuela 11 Australia 10

Operators involved

Civil Air Patrol 12 Lease-A-Plane 9 Civil Air Patrol, Inc. 8 Yingling Aircr 6 Condor Aero CL 5 Fulton Air SER 4

All 6,261 records by number of deaths, then by date

Date Aircraft Location Operator Outcome Died
22 Dec 1970 Cessna 182
N3924D
 Mexico, Missouri, United States
no coordinates
 - Fatal 3
26 Jul 1970 Cessna 182J
N2713F
 Ouray, Colorado, United States
no coordinates
 Texair Flyers Fatal 3
28 Apr 1970 Cessna 182H
N2327X
 Young, Arizona, United States
no coordinates
 - Fatal 3
24 Nov 1969 Cessna 182C
N8471T
 Saginaw, Michigan, United States
no coordinates
 Cooley Soft WA Fatal 3
29 Oct 1969 Cessna 182A
N9988B
 Chadron, Nebraska, United States
no coordinates
 Upper Ten Flyi Fatal 3
23 Sep 1969 Cessna 182M
N91785
 Kansas City, Missouri, United States
no coordinates
 Cessna Employe Fatal 3
15 Aug 1969 Cessna 182
N2657G
 Bay City, Michigan, United States
no coordinates
 - Fatal 3
6 Jul 1969 Cessna 182
N5558B
 Trinidad, Colorado, United States
no coordinates
 - Fatal 3
27 Jun 1969 Cessna 182E
N3150Y
 Phoenix, Arizona, United States
no coordinates
 - Fatal 3
16 Feb 1969 Cessna 182L
N3334R
 Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States
no coordinates
 Judson Flying Fatal 3
5 Oct 1968 Cessna 182J
N3306F
 Miami, Florida, United States
no coordinates
 Amercian Aviat Fatal 3
1 Aug 1968 Cessna 182H
N8317S
 Jamestown, Rhode Island, United States
no coordinates
 Mid Island Air Fatal 3
28 Jul 1968 Cessna 182H
N8348S
 El Granada, California, United States
no coordinates
 - Fatal 3
17 Feb 1968 Cessna 182
N2671F
 Calera, Alabama, United States
no coordinates
 - Fatal 3
1 Dec 1967 Cessna 182
N8952X
 Orange, Texas, United States
no coordinates
 - Fatal 3
13 Oct 1967 Cessna 182F
N3591U
 Leopold, Missouri, United States
no coordinates
 Aero Flite Inc Fatal 3
11 Sep 1966 Cessna 182
N6456A
 Oswosso Mich, Michigan, United States
no coordinates
 - Fatal 3
15 May 1966 Cessna 182C
N8520T
 McGill Nev, Nevada, United States
no coordinates
 Advance Air Co Fatal 3
11 Dec 1965 Cessna 182E
N3167Y
 El Portal Calif, California, United States
no coordinates
 - Fatal 3
20 Nov 1965 Cessna 182E
N3081Y
 Santa Fe N.mex., New Mexico, United States
no coordinates
 V.w.const Co. Fatal 3
9 May 1965 Cessna 182
N4841D
 Mabank Tex, Texas, United States
no coordinates
 Texair Flyers Fatal 3
5 May 1965 Cessna 182A
N5898B
 Malta Mont, Montana, United States
no coordinates
 Big Sky Constr Fatal 3
21 Jan 1965 Cessna 182
N2271G
 Pampa Tex, Texas, United States
no coordinates
 - Fatal 3
5 Jan 1965 Cessna 182B
N2401G
 Kla City Okla, Oklahoma, United States
no coordinates
 Alva Acft Serv Fatal 3
30 Dec 1964 Cessna 182E
N9256X
 Ventura Calif, California, United States
no coordinates
 Lincoln Flying Fatal 3
16 Sep 1964 Cessna 182
N5959B
 Coahuila Mexico, Mexico
no coordinates
 - Fatal 3
14 Sep 1964 Cessna 182B
N23909
 Salida Colo, Colorado, United States
no coordinates
 - Fatal 3
7 Jul 1964 Cessna 182
N3104Y
 Clewiston Florida, Florida, United States
no coordinates
 - Fatal 3
25 Mar 1964 Cessna 182
N4737D
 Sarita Texas, Texas, United States
no coordinates
 - Fatal 3
9 Feb 1964 Cessna 182
N8660T
 Prosser Wash, Washington, United States
no coordinates
 - Fatal 3
7 May 2026 Cessna 182T
N227TF
 Armistead, California, United States Top Flight Aviation Inc Fatal 2
26 Jan 2025 Cessna 182
CC-KKM
 Región del Bio Bio, Chile
no coordinates
 - Fatal 2
23 Nov 2024 Cessna 182T
N434CP
 Drake, Colorado, United States Civil Air Patrol Fatal 2
16 May 2024 Cessna 182
HCCIN
 Macas, Ecuador
no coordinates
 - Fatal 2
8 May 2023 Cessna 182
HC-CJL
 Shell, Ecuador - Fatal 2
5 Sep 2022 Cessna 182
N58807
 Cleveland, Tennessee, United States Mountain Flyers Inc. Fatal 2
6 Jun 2022 Cessna 182G
N2118R
 Kenedy, Texas, United States - Fatal 2
9 Mar 2022 Cessna 182Q
N182XT
 Panama City, Florida, United States Slattery Donald J Fatal 2
16 Nov 2021 Cessna 182
C-FBKJ
 Hope, Canada - Fatal 2
13 Sep 2021 Cessna 182
4X-CHZ
 Samos Island, Greece - Fatal 2
2 Feb 2021 Cessna 182Q
N4765N
 Hackberry, Louisiana, United States D & S Aviation Inc Fatal 2
12 Nov 2020 Cessna 182R
N7306H
 Rockwall, Texas, United States - Fatal 2
22 Jan 2020 Cessna 182
VH-WNR
 Tangalooma, Australia
no coordinates
 - Fatal 2
19 Sep 2019 Cessna 182
N1891X
 Nixon, Nevada, United States - Fatal 2
5 Aug 2019 Cessna 182
N3469R
 Wolf Point, Montana, United States - Fatal 2
27 Jun 2019 Cessna 182
N5388N
 Chimaltenango, Guatemala - Fatal 2
12 Jun 2019 Cessna 182
N3051Y
 Maitland, Florida, United States - Fatal 2
16 Nov 2018 Cessna 182
N2629R
 Redding, California, United States - Fatal 2
16 Oct 2018 Cessna 182
N9326G
 Canoncito, New Mexico, United States - Fatal 2
12 Feb 2018 Cessna 182
XB-HRG
 El Pozo, Mexico - Fatal 2