Cessna 180J
N180V 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 Trigger Gap Aviation LLC, an LLC in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 25, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 21, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180J · all 180Js and related versions
- Serial number
- 18052507
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 120 mph
- Transponder code
- A14287 (octal 50241207)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 25, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 21, 1976
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00802335
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Trigger Gap Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1001 S Main St Ste 49
Kalispell, MT 59901-5635
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N180V, 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 Trigger Gap Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 25, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 21, 1976, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18052507 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N180V was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna Aircraft Co CG-2 (serial 52, cancelled March 8, 1933). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N180V: Accident on June 7, 2019 at Santa Fe, NM: 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 during landing with a crosswind, which resulted in a wing strike.
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