Cessna 180A
N5252D is a Cessna 180A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1957. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Gullwing Research LLC, an LLC in Willow, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 31, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated December 20, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180A · all 180As and related versions
- Serial number
- 50150
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1957
- Cruising speed
- 121 mph
- Transponder code
- A69E23 (octal 51517043)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 31, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- March 31, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · December 20, 1957
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00462475
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gullwing Research LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 213
Willow, AK 99688-0213
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 N5252D, 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 Gullwing Research LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 31, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated December 20, 1957, consistent with the 1957 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 50150 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5252D 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]
2 NTSB records under N5252D: Accident on June 6, 1993 at Anchorage, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 19, 1985 at Battle Mountain, NV: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 180A · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN DIRECTION CONTROL OF THE AIRPLANE DURING LANDING. THE TAILWIND WAS A FACTOR.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC93LA080 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 180G · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA85LA173 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data