The U.S. aircraft register, updated daily · Carbon Free Flight by 2050
Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 2, 2026
N272SC

Cessna 180K

Valid Maine

N272SC is a Cessna 180K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Robert Gardner Enterprises LLC, an LLC in Mercer, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 7, 2017 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 14, 1978. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
180K · all 180Ks and related versions
Serial number
18052939
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1977
Cruising speed
114 mph
Transponder code
A2AF7D (octal 50527575)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 7, 2017
Expires
February 28, 2030
Last FAA action
October 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · January 14, 1978
FAA region
New England
FAA record id
00633026

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Robert Gardner Enterprises LLC
Type
LLC
Address
1371 Beech Hill Rd
Mercer, ME 04957-4850

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 1

2026-09-21Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N272SC, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Robert Gardner Enterprises LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 7, 2017, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated January 14, 1978, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18052939 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N272SC according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 21, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N272SC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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