Cessna 180
N3698C 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 Kent, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 2, 1999 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; forest, dated August 27, 1959.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180 · all 180s and related versions
- Serial number
- 31197
- 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
- A4312E (octal 51030456)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 2, 1999
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Forest · August 27, 1959
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00203383
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tomlinson John J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 17635 SE 297Th Pl
Kent, WA 98042-5713
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 N3698C, 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 Tomlinson John J, an individual, certificate issued March 2, 1999, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 27, 1959, 5 years after the 1954 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 31197 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3698C 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 N3698C: Accident on October 15, 1995 at Seattle, WA: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 180R · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to maintain control of the airplane during the landing roll. A factor in the accident was the gusty wind conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI96LA009 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