Cessna 180J
N121KS is a Cessna 180J, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Ca-C180J LLC, an LLC in Addison, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 15, 2008 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 15, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180J · all 180Js and related versions
- Serial number
- 18052683
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 120 mph
- Transponder code
- A0585B (octal 50054133)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 15, 2008
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 15, 1997
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00975361
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ca-C180J LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 16885 Dallas Pkwy
Addison, TX 75001-5215
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.
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The public federal record on N121KS, 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 Ca-C180J LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 15, 2008, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 15, 1997, 21 years after the 1976 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18052683 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N121KS according to the deregistered file. [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 N121KS: Accident on December 28, 1997 at Fort Worth, 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 180J · operated under 091
the pilot's improper planning/decision, by allowing the airplane to get in a situation, where he could not compensate for wind conditions. A related factor was the gusty crosswind.
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 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