Cessna 180
N4685A is a Cessna 180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1956. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 22, 2025 and expires on January 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated July 12, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180 · all 180s and related versions
- Serial number
- 32282
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1956
- Cruising speed
- 121 mph
- Transponder code
- A5BA5B (octal 51335133)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 22, 2025
- Expires
- January 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · July 12, 1957
- FAA region
- —
- FAA record id
- 00333334
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- Type
- Individual
- Address
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 N4685A, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, an individual, certificate issued January 22, 2025, expires January 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated July 12, 1957, consistent with the 1956 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32282 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4685A 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]
2 NTSB records under N4685A: Accident on April 27, 2005 at Anchorage, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on June 21, 2004 at Anchorage, AK: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 180 · operated under 091
The pilot's selection of an unsuitable landing area, which resulted in an on ground encounter with terrain during the landing roll, and subsequent nose down of the airplane. A factor associated with the accident was soft terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC05CA066 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 180 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll, which resulted in a ground loop/swerve, and the left wingtip and propeller striking the runway. A factor associated with the accident was the installation of oversized tires on the main landing gear.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC04LA066 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