Cessna 180H
N500AK is a Cessna 180H, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Boerne, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 1, 2019 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 24, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180H · all 180Hs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18051663
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 121 mph
- Transponder code
- A639FA (octal 51434772)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 1, 2019
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 24, 1976
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00982672
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jones Thomas F
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 28966 Fairs Gate
Boerne, TX 78015-4670
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 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N500AK, 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 Jones Thomas F, an individual, certificate issued May 1, 2019, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 24, 1976, 10 years after the 1966 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 18051663 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N500AK was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Swearingen SA227-TT (serial TT527, cancelled October 6, 1993). 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 N500AK: Accident on April 2, 1993 at Blountville, TN: fatal, destroyed (4 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: Fairchild SA227-TT · operated under 091
FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO FOLLOW PROCEDURES CONCERNING USE OF THE ENGINE INLET ANTI-ICE SYSTEM AND/OR CONTINUOUS IGNITION WHILE OPERATING IN ICING CONDITIONS, WHICH RESULTED IN PROBABLE ICE INGESTION AND LOSS OF ENGINE POWER; AND THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN SUFFICIENT AIRSPEED WHILE COPING WITH THE ENGINE PROBLEM, WHICH RESULTED IN A STALL. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: DARKNESS, ICING CONDITIONS, AND ENGINE INLET (NACELLE) ICE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL93MA068 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