Cessna 180
N2802A is a Cessna 180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1953. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Fort Bragg, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 1, 1988 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 15, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180 · all 180s and related versions
- Serial number
- 30002
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1953
- Cruising speed
- 121 mph
- Transponder code
- A2D09A (octal 50550232)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 1, 1988
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · May 15, 1956
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00330273
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hamilton Elson
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 22950 Bednar Ln
Fort Bragg, CA 95437-8411 - Co-owners
- Boese Maryilyn
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 N2802A, 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 Hamilton Elson, a co-owned, certificate issued September 1, 1988, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 15, 1956, 3 years after the 1953 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30002 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2802A 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 N2802A: Accident on November 4, 1991 at Sacramento, 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 180 · operated under 091
THE PARTIAL FAILURE OF THE BRAKE SYSTEM DUE TO CONTAMINATION.
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 September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data