Cessna 180J
N398W is a Cessna 180J, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Golden Valley, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 15, 2014 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 4, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180J · all 180Js and related versions
- Serial number
- 18052332
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O 470R · 230 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 120 mph
- Transponder code
- A4A275 (octal 51121165)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 15, 2014
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 4, 2014
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01161006
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Waffensmith Walter L Trustee
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4444 Merribee Dr
Golden Valley, MN 55422-3669
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N398W, 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 Waffensmith Walter L Trustee, an individual, certificate issued October 15, 2014, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 4, 2014, 41 years after the 1973 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 18052332 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N398W was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 650 (serial 650-7038, cancelled May 23, 2007); Alexander Aircraft Co PRIMARY GLIDER (serial 59, cancelled January 12, 1933). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N398W. 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