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Cessna 180B
N3539E is a Cessna 180B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1958. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in North Pole, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 20, 2003 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated December 19, 1958.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180B · all 180Bs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 180 Skywagon family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 50398
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming GO-435 · 210 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1958
- Cruising speed
- 121 mph
- Transponder code
- A3F38A (octal 50771612)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 20, 2003
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · December 19, 1958
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00442833
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gordon Robert A JR
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 55082
North Pole, AK 99705-0082 - Co-owners
- Gordon Carol F
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
Connections how N3539E links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 180 Skywagon 2,604 registered
- Cessna 72,676 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming GO-435 33 aircraft with this engine series · 210 hp
- North Pole, AK 157 aircraft registered in this town
- Bradley Sky-Ranch Airport · 95Z
- Alaska 9,142 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 180 Skywagon 37 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 180 Skywagon 281 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 180 Skywagon 518 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming GO-435 5 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N3539E.json.
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The public federal record on N3539E, 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 Gordon Robert A JR, a co-owned, certificate issued August 20, 2003, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated December 19, 1958, consistent with the 1958 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 50398 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3539E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-6891, cancelled May 24, 1956). 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]
2 NTSB records under N3539E: Accident on September 11, 1988 at Fairbanks, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 1, 1986 at Clear, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 180B · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 180B · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data