Cessna 180C
N451SW is a Cessna 180C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1960. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Aircraft & Aviation Professionals LLC, an LLC in Coldwater, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 4, 2017 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 18, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180C · all 180Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 50885
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1960
- Cruising speed
- 121 mph
- Transponder code
- A57778 (octal 51273570)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 4, 2017
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 18, 1998
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00807101
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aircraft & Aviation Professionals LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 647 E Chicago Rd Ste A
Coldwater, MI 49036-9497
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 N451SW, 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 Aircraft & Aviation Professionals LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 4, 2017, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 18, 1998, 38 years after the 1960 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 50885 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N451SW 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 N451SW: Accident on September 5, 2016 at Clemson, SC: 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 loss of directional control during the takeoff roll, which resulted in a runway excursion.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA16CA478 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