Cessna 180J
N180DK is a Cessna 180J, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 6 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Spirit Lake, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 25, 1999 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 7, 1974. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180J · all 180Js and related versions
- Serial number
- 18052456
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 120 mph
- Transponder code
- A14101 (octal 50240401)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 25, 1999
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 7, 1974
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00552315
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Griffin Vaughn
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 890 Sky Hawk Dr
Spirit Lake, ID 83869-9688 - Co-owners
- Griffin Nancy J
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 1
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The public federal record on N180DK, 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 Griffin Vaughn, a co-owned, certificate issued June 25, 1999, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 7, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18052456 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N180DK according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 8, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N180DK: Accident on June 9, 1994 at Sedona, AZ: 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
a loss of directional control due to a locked brake from a leaking hydraulic system.
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