Cessna 180K
N2957K is a Cessna 180K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Sutton Aircraft Salvage LLC, an LLC in Palmer, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 18, 2021 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; other, dated September 27, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180K · all 180Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 18053138
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1980
- Cruising speed
- 114 mph
- Transponder code
- A30B64 (octal 50605544)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 18, 2021
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Other · September 27, 2016
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00910813
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sutton Aircraft Salvage LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 2731
Palmer, AK 99645-2731
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 N2957K, 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 Sutton Aircraft Salvage LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 18, 2021, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 27, 2016, 36 years after the 1980 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 18053138 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2957K 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 N2957K: Accident on June 15, 2018 at Ambler, AK: serious 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 180K · operated under 135
The pilot's selection of an unsuitable takeoff area with unfavorable wind conditions, which resulted in the airplane’s inability to maintain a climb.
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