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N1810N

Cessna 120

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesPennsylvania

N1810N is a Cessna 120, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Manheim, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 11, 1983 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 21, 1955.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
120 · all 120s and related versions
Serial number
12054
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 C85 SERIES · 85 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1946
Cruising speed
90 mph
Transponder code
A146C8 (octal 50243310)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
February 11, 1983
Expires
July 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 18, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 21, 1955
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00622580

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Metzler Darwin H
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
Address
1149 Auction Rd
Manheim, PA 17545-9140

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N1810N, 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 Metzler Darwin H, an individual, certificate issued February 11, 1983, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 21, 1955, 9 years after the 1946 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 12054 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N1810N according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N1810N. 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