Cessna 180K
N2697K is a Cessna 180K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Frierson, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 15, 2016 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 13, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180K · all 180Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 18053038
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 114 mph
- Transponder code
- A2A3C3 (octal 50521703)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 15, 2016
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 13, 1979
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00373512
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Prince John C III
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 159
Frierson, LA 71027-0159
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N2697K, 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 Prince John C III, an individual, certificate issued July 15, 2016, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 13, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18053038 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2697K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Luscombe 8A (serial 5424, cancelled July 25, 1949). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N2697K: Accident on November 8, 2025 at Lakeview, AR: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on December 22, 1983 at Santa Rosa Island, CA: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 180K · operated under 091
The pilot’s decision to continue an approach that resulted in a long landing and inability to stop prior to the end of the runway. Contributing to the accident were the light conditions and a road with vehicles on it immediately adjacent to the end of the runway.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 180K · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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