Cessna 180
N4688B is a Cessna 180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lopez Island, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 29, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated February 23, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180 · all 180s and related versions
- Serial number
- 31487
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 121 mph
- Transponder code
- A5BAC5 (octal 51335305)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 29, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 29, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · February 23, 1956
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00263014
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aufderhar Samuel E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 56
Lopez Island, WA 98261-0056
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.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N4688B, 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 Aufderhar Samuel E, an individual, certificate issued February 29, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 31487 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4688B was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 208B (serial 208B0169, cancelled June 24, 1992); Cessna 180 (serial 31586, cancelled May 8, 1970). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N4688B: Accident on January 30, 1990 at Williston, VT: fatal, destroyed (2 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 208B · operated under 135
THE FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO DE-ICE THE AIRPLANE PRIOR TO DEPARTURE, AND HIS DECISION TO MAKE THE TAKEOFF AT A WEIGHT THAT EXCEEDED BOTH THE MAXIMUM STRUCTURAL TAKEOFF WEIGHT AND THE REDUCED TAKEOFF WEIGHT ALLOWED FOR ICING CONDITIONS RESULTING IN AN INADEVERTENT STALL.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC90FA061 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