Cessna 180
N2486C is a Cessna 180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1954. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Bishop, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 30, 1989 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 21, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180 · all 180s and related versions
- Serial number
- 30786
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1954
- Cruising speed
- 121 mph
- Transponder code
- A250E4 (octal 50450344)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 30, 1989
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · May 21, 1956
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00842772
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Armstrong Patrick Trustee
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 399 Vista Rd
Bishop, CA 93514-2141 - Co-owners
- Armstrong Merry Trustee
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.
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The public federal record on N2486C, 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 Armstrong Patrick Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued October 30, 1989, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated May 21, 1956, consistent with the 1954 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30786 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2486C 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]
1 NTSB record under N2486C: Accident on August 2, 2002 at Cascade, ID: 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 the takeoff ground run. Wind gusts and a tree were a factor.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA02LA148 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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