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N4649B

Cessna 180

Valid Colorado

N4649B 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 Bayfield, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 17, 1990 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 24, 1956.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
180 · all 180s and related versions
Serial number
31547
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
A5AC0C (octal 51326014)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 17, 1990
Expires
September 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 2, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · May 24, 1956
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00533234

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Nicholson Stephen G
Type
Individual
Address
30 W Mill St
Bayfield, CO 81122-8021

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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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N4649B, 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 Nicholson Stephen G, an individual, certificate issued January 17, 1990, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated May 24, 1956, consistent with the 1955 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 31547 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N4649B according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N4649B: Accident on March 29, 1982 at Duluth, MN: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

CHI82DA104Accident on March 29, 1982 at Duluth, MN: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 2500

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 180 · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI82DA104 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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