Cub Crafters Inc CC18-180
N523M is a Cub Crafters Inc CC18-180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2014. It has 2 seats. It is registered to U S Department of the Interior, a government body in Boise, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 7, 2014 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other, dated October 3, 2014.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cub Crafters Inc
- Model
- CC18-180 · all CC18-180s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Cub Crafters Inc CC18 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- CC18-0070
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-C4P · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2014
- Transponder code
- A69526 (octal 51512446)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 7, 2014
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · OtherFAA certificate purpose code 0 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 3, 2014
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01146170
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- U S Department of the Interior
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 300 e Mallard Dr Ste 200
Boise, ID 83706-3991 - Co-owners
- Office of Aviation Services
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N523M links to the rest of the register
- Cub Crafters Inc CC18 51 registered
- Cub Crafters Inc 247 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360-C4P 102 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- U S Department Of The Interior 12 aircraft in the fleet
- Boise, ID 593 aircraft registered in this town
- Boise Air Trml/Gowen Field · BOI
- Idaho 4,199 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Cub Crafters Inc CC18 11 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-360-C4P 14 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-360-C4P 13 reports since 1995
- Where N523M is now · Last seen today at 10:41 am.
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The public federal record on N523M, 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 U S Department of the Interior, a government body, certificate issued August 7, 2014, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for other, dated October 3, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CC18-0070 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N523M 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N523M. 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 November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data