Cessna 180E
N2420S is a Cessna 180E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1962. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Nighthawk INC, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 16, 2004 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 21, 1962.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180E · all 180Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 18051139
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1962
- Cruising speed
- 121 mph
- Transponder code
- A239D6 (octal 50434726)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 16, 2004
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · May 21, 1962
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00272562
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nighthawk INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 4036 Glenridge Rd
Dallas, TX 75220-6308
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 · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N2420S, 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 Nighthawk INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 16, 2004, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated May 21, 1962, consistent with the 1962 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18051139 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2420S 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 N2420S. 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