Cessna 180J
N42051 is a Cessna 180J, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Flying M Aviation INC, a corporation in Irondale, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 28, 2021 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 19, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180J · all 180Js and related versions
- Serial number
- 18052305
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 120 mph
- Transponder code
- A4FEC0 (octal 51177300)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 28, 2021
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 19, 1973
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00451724
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Flying M Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 816 Villa Ln
Irondale, AL 35210-4602
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N42051, 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 Flying M Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 28, 2021, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 19, 1973, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18052305 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N42051 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N42051. 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