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N180SF

Cessna 180H

Valid Florida

N180SF is a Cessna 180H, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 6 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Vero Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 19, 1999 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 28, 1981. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
180H · all 180Hs and related versions
Serial number
18052231
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1971
Cruising speed
121 mph
Transponder code
A14242 (octal 50241102)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 19, 1999
Expires
February 28, 2030
Last FAA action
October 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · October 28, 1981
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00893970

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Franklin James T III
Type
Co-owned
Address
1855 15Th Ave SW
Vero Beach, FL 32962-6863
Co-owners
Franklin Kathleen A

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

2026-09-10Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N180SF, 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 Franklin James T III, a co-owned, certificate issued April 19, 1999, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 28, 1981, 10 years after the 1971 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 18052231 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N180SF according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 10, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N180SF. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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