Cessna 180
N2838K is a Cessna 180, 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 Bozeman, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 30, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 13, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180 · all 180s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18053088
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 121 mph
- Transponder code
- A2DC9A (octal 50556232)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 30, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 13, 1993
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00165511
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ortman James W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 318 N 22Nd Ave
Bozeman, MT 59718-3138
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 N2838K, 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 Ortman James W, an individual, certificate issued March 30, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 13, 1993, 14 years after the 1979 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 18053088 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2838K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Luscombe 8A (serial 5565, cancelled March 23, 1989). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N2838K. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
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