Cessna 180
N3197C is a Cessna 180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1954. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mesa, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 29, 2012 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 1, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180 · all 180s and related versions
- Serial number
- 30996
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1954
- Cruising speed
- 121 mph
- Transponder code
- A36B90 (octal 50665620)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 29, 2012
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 1, 1956
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00401703
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Scott James D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2616 N Sossaman Rd
Mesa, AZ 85207-1124
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N3197C, 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 Scott James D, an individual, certificate issued November 29, 2012, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 1, 1956, consistent with the 1954 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30996 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3197C 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N3197C. 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 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