Cessna 180
N2261C 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 an individual in Mt Vernon, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 7, 2020 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 29, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180 · all 180s and related versions
- Serial number
- 30561
- 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
- A1F9C9 (octal 50374711)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 7, 2020
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · August 29, 1955
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00271942
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gandy John W III
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1003 S Hwy 37
Mt Vernon, TX 75457
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N2261C, 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 Gandy John W III, an individual, certificate issued October 7, 2020, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated August 29, 1955, consistent with the 1953 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30561 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2261C 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N2261C. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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 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