Cessna 180
N4940A 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 individual in Chugiak, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 13, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180 · all 180s and related versions
- Serial number
- 32337
- 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
- A6214D (octal 51420515)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 13, 2021
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00560625
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sims Charles A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 22541 Ursa Major Cir
Chugiak, AK 99567-5337
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 N4940A, 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 Sims Charles A, an individual, certificate issued January 13, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32337 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4940A 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 N4940A: Accident on July 9, 2000 at Saint Cloud, MN: 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 180 · operated under 091
directional control not being maintained by the pilot during landing rollout.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI00LA190 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