Cessna 180K
N4809E is a Cessna 180K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Leavenworth, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 15, 2019 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 16, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180K · all 180Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 18053175
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 114 mph
- Transponder code
- A5EC31 (octal 51366061)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 15, 2019
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 16, 1980
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00070195
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Townsend Robert
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9205 Merry Canyon Rd
Leavenworth, WA 98826-9125
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 N4809E, 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 Townsend Robert, an individual, certificate issued October 15, 2019, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18053175 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4809E was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna A185F (serial 18503876, cancelled July 2, 1982); Douglas B-26 (serial 44-35271, cancelled August 25, 1973). 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 N4809E: Accident on July 30, 1999 at Shawano, WI: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 180K · operated under 091
the failure of the pilot to maintain directional control. Factors were the misjudged flare and improper recovery from the bounced landing by the pilot, and the ditch.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI99LA271 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