Cessna 180H
N3SM is a Cessna 180H, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1964. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Culpeper, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 11, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 22, 1964.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180H · all 180Hs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18051488
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1964
- Cruising speed
- 121 mph
- Transponder code
- A31C3C (octal 50616074)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 11, 2024
- Expires
- July 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- July 11, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 22, 1964
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00280105
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Quaintance Christian N
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 20109 Williams Dr
Culpeper, VA 22701-8272
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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 N3SM, 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 Quaintance Christian N, an individual, certificate issued July 11, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 22, 1964, consistent with the 1964 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18051488 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3SM 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 N3SM: Accident on February 21, 2012 at Conroe, TX: 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 180H · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the landing. Contributing to the accident was the flight instructor’s delayed intervention and the pilot’s lack of experience in tailwheel airplanes.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN12LA168 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data