Cessna 180
N180JV is a Cessna 180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1953. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Bf Aviation LLC, an LLC in Boulder, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 16, 2019 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 10, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180 · all 180s and related versions
- Serial number
- 30136
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1953
- Cruising speed
- 121 mph
- Transponder code
- A14188 (octal 50240610)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 16, 2019
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · June 10, 1956
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00222550
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bf Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 18321
Boulder, CO 80308-1321
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 N180JV, 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 Bf Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 16, 2019, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 10, 1956, 3 years after the 1953 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 30136 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N180JV 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 N180JV: Accident on May 5, 1995 at Little Rock, AR: 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 180 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL DUE TO THE EXCESSIVE TAXI SPEED.
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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data