Cessna 180
N524RK is a Cessna 180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1955. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Austin Air Cruises LLC, an LLC in Dripping Springs, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 27, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 22, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180 · all 180s and related versions
- Serial number
- 31491
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1955
- Cruising speed
- 121 mph
- Transponder code
- A6994B (octal 51514513)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 27, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 27, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · March 22, 1956
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00193024
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Austin Air Cruises LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 155 Horse Trail Dr
Dripping Springs, TX 78620-5512
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N524RK, 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 Austin Air Cruises LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 27, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated March 22, 1956, consistent with the 1955 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 31491 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N524RK 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 N524RK. 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