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N2081V

Cessna 120

Valid Wisconsin

N2081V is a Cessna 120, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1947. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hudson, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 28, 1995 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated July 15, 1956.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
120 · all 120s and related versions
Serial number
14314
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1947
Cruising speed
90 mph
Transponder code
A1B24A (octal 50331112)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 28, 1995
Expires
March 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 28, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · July 15, 1956
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00701212

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rankin Paul D
Type
Individual
Address
733 Wilfred Dr
Hudson, WI 54016-7684

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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N2081V, 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 Rankin Paul D, an individual, certificate issued August 28, 1995, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 15, 1956, 9 years after the 1947 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 14314 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N2081V 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N2081V: Accident on October 12, 1988 at St Peter, MN: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

CHI89LA008Accident on October 12, 1988 at St Peter, MN: minor injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 120 · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI89LA008 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 August 27, 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