Cessna 180B
N485 is a Cessna 180B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1959. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Simi Valley, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 23, 2020 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 16, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180B · all 180Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 50595
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1959
- Cruising speed
- 121 mph
- Transponder code
- A5FB2B (octal 51375453)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 23, 2020
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 16, 1999
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00806002
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Obenchain David W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2892 Gage Ave
Simi Valley, CA 93065-1114
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N485, 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 Obenchain David W, an individual, certificate issued June 23, 2020, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 16, 1999, 40 years after the 1959 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 50595 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N485 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Douglas DC3A (serial 4848, cancelled December 6, 1965); Aeromarine Klemm L 25 A (serial 3, cancelled March 31, 1940). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N485. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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