Cessna 180J
N42376 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 Anacortes, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 5, 1988 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other, dated June 22, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180J · all 180Js and related versions
- Serial number
- 18052348
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 120 mph
- Transponder code
- A50A30 (octal 51205060)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 5, 1988
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Other · June 22, 1982
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00761824
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Johnson Lytle D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1004 Commercial Ave # 238
Anacortes, WA 98221-4117
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 N42376, 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 Johnson Lytle D, an individual, certificate issued December 5, 1988, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 22, 1982, 9 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 18052348 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N42376 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 N42376: Accident on January 20, 1997 at Lopez, WA: minor 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 180J · operated under 091
The pilot's improper decision to initiate flight into marginal VFR conditions at night which led to inadvertent flight into instrument meteorological conditions, and his failure to maintain adequate clearance from terrain. Factors contributing to the accident were a low ceiling, fog, and dark night conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA97LA050 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