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N1509C

Cessna 180

N1509C is a Cessna 180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1954. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Benicia, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 20, 2021 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 19, 1958.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
180 · all 180s and related versions
Serial number
30882
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1954
Cruising speed
121 mph
Transponder code
A0CDC5 (octal 50146705)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 20, 2021
Expires
February 29, 2028
Last FAA action
April 26, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · May 19, 1958
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00670873

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hammerquist Blake T
Type
Co-owned
Address
578 Primrose Ln
Benicia, CA 94510-3843
Co-owners
Culver Robert D

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 2

2015-05-05Air Tractor Inc AT-401 · Registration expired, pending cancellation
1990-07-13Cessna 180 · N-number assigned but not yet registered

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N1509C, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Hammerquist Blake T, a co-owned, certificate issued February 20, 2021, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 19, 1958, 4 years after the 1954 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30882 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N1509C was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Air Tractor Inc AT-401 (serial 401-0828, cancelled May 5, 2015); Cessna 180 (serial 30209, cancelled July 13, 1990). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

2 NTSB records under N1509C: Accident on July 8, 1997 at Altha, FL: minor injuries, destroyed. Accident on August 8, 1988 at Cascade, MT: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 2

MIA97LA208Accident on July 8, 1997 at Altha, FL: minor injuries, destroyed.serial on NTSB record: 401-0828

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Air Tractor AT-401 · operated under 137

the pilot's impairment of judgment and performance due to alcohol which led to his failure to maintain control of the airplane.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

DEN88LA181Accident on August 8, 1988 at Cascade, MT: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 30209

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 180 · operated under 091

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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