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Cessna 180
N266V 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 Wasilla, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 1, 2014 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 11, 1954.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Fox Airways LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180 · all 180s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 180 Skywagon family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 31215
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1954
- Cruising speed
- 121 mph
- Transponder code
- A29722 (octal 50513442)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 1, 2014
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 11, 1954
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00725401
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fox Stephen A
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 6049 e Hart Lake Loop
Wasilla, AK 99654-9361 - Co-owners
- Fox Silas A
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.
Connections how N266V links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 180 Skywagon 2,604 registered
- Cessna 72,685 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Fox Airways LLC · charter operator
- Wasilla, AK 1,276 aircraft registered in this town
- Wasilla Airport · IYS
- Blodgett Lake Seaplane Base · D75
- Cottonwood Lake Seaplane Base · 3H3
- Island Lake Seaplane Base · 29A
- 6 more landing places in town
- Alaska 9,142 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 180 Skywagon 37 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 180 Skywagon 281 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 180 Skywagon 518 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N266V.json.
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The public federal record on N266V, 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 Fox Stephen A, a co-owned, certificate issued July 1, 2014, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 11, 1954, consistent with the 1954 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 31215 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N266V 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]
2 NTSB records under N266V: Accident on March 30, 2012 at Palmer, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on June 6, 2010 at Kenai, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 180 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain adequate clearance from terrain during low-level maneuvering.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 180 · operated under 091
The pilot's selection of unsuitable terrain for landing, resulting in the airplane nosing over during taxi.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data