Cessna 180J
N52197 is a Cessna 180J, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 6 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Wasilla, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 11, 1987 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 28, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180J · all 180Js and related versions
- Serial number
- 18052553
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 120 mph
- Transponder code
- A69058 (octal 51510130)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 11, 1987
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 3, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 28, 1975
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00752355
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hodges Ray L
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 871560
Wasilla, AK 99687-1560 - Co-owners
- Hodges June M
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N52197, 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 Hodges Ray L, a co-owned, certificate issued August 11, 1987, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 28, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18052553 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N52197 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing A75N1 (serial 75-4359, cancelled May 20, 1965). 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 N52197: Accident on May 19, 1985 at Hooksett, NH: 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 180J · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC85LA129 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