Cessna 180A
N5353D is a Cessna 180A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Gakona, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 3, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 1, 1958.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180A · all 180As and related versions
- Serial number
- 50242
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 121 mph
- Transponder code
- A6C5C5 (octal 51542705)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 3, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 1, 1958
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00852835
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mcmahan Charles B
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 110
Gakona, AK 99586-0110 - Co-owners
- Mcmahan Sandra L
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 · 2 clear
The public federal record on N5353D, 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 Mcmahan Charles B, a co-owned, certificate issued August 3, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 50242 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5353D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 180A (serial 50251, cancelled August 8, 1973). 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 N5353D: Accident on September 29, 1985 at Glennallen, AK: 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 180A · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC85LA185 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