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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180B · all 180Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 50398
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming GO-435 · 210 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1958
- Cruising speed
- 121 mph
- Transponder code
- A3F38A (octal 50771612)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 20, 2003
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · December 19, 1958
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00442833
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gordon Robert A JR
- Type
- Co-owned
- 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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
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]
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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 180B · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC88LA139 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 180B · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC86LA159 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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