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N4612B

Cessna 180

Valid Oregon

N4612B is a Cessna 180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1955. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Portland, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 9, 2021 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 10, 1956. 1 document is on file: loan release.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
180 · all 180s and related versions
Serial number
31510
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1955
Cruising speed
121 mph
Transponder code
A59FF2 (octal 51317762)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 9, 2021
Expires
September 30, 2028
Last FAA action
June 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · March 10, 1956
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00393104

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Benson Ian M
Type
Individual
Address
4629 N Commercial Ave
Portland, OR 97217-3067

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Documents on file 1

2026-09-29Loan release

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The public federal record on N4612B, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Benson Ian M, an individual, certificate issued September 9, 2021, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated March 10, 1956, consistent with the 1955 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 31510 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N4612B according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Loan release (September 29, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N4612B. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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