Cessna 180G
N4679U is a Cessna 180G, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1964. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Menomonie, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 3, 2020 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 23, 1964.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180G · all 180Gs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18051379
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1964
- Cruising speed
- 121 mph
- Transponder code
- A5B742 (octal 51333502)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 3, 2020
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 23, 1964
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00603324
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nelson Ross R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- E3115 County Road P
Menomonie, WI 54751-5301
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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 N4679U, 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 Nelson Ross R, an individual, certificate issued June 3, 2020, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 23, 1964, consistent with the 1964 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18051379 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4679U 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 N4679U: Accident on April 19, 2025 at Trilla, IL: fatal, destroyed (4 fatal). 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
On April 19, 2025, at 1016 central daylight time, a Cessna 180G, N4679U, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Trilla, Illinois. The private pilot and three passengers were fatally injured. The airplane was operated under Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 as a personal flight. According to flight history data, the airplane departed its home base in Menomonie, Wisconsin, on April 16, 2025, on a visual flight rules cross-country flight to Muhlenberg County Airport (M21), Greenville, Kentucky. The pilot purchased 42 gallons of 100 low lead aviation fuel at M21 before c…
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA25FA179 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data