Cessna 180D
N3EH is a Cessna 180D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1961. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Big Lake, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 13, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 8, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180D · all 180Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 18051020
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O 470R · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 121 mph
- Transponder code
- A31B0C (octal 50615414)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 13, 2023
- Expires
- July 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 8, 2008
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00910933
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hoppe Nicholas J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 520636
Big Lake, AK 99652-0636
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 N3EH, 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 Hoppe Nicholas J, an individual, certificate issued July 13, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 8, 2008, 47 years after the 1961 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 18051020 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3EH 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 N3EH: Accident on May 26, 2019 at Takotna, 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 180 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the takeoff, which resulted in impact with vegetation.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA19CA286 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