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N53ES

Cessna 180

Valid Texas

N53ES is a Cessna 180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fulshear, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 1, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 28, 1956.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
180 · all 180s and related versions
Serial number
30053
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
121 mph
Transponder code
A6AE89 (octal 51527211)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 1, 2024
Expires
August 31, 2031
Last FAA action
August 1, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · April 28, 1956
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00640887

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Spooner Brent
Type
Individual
Address
3226 Wellspring Lake Dr
Fulshear, TX 77441-4486

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N53ES, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Spooner Brent, an individual, certificate issued August 1, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30053 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N53ES according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N53ES: Accident on April 16, 2020 at Marion, MT: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

WPR20CA124Accident on April 16, 2020 at Marion, MT: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 180 · operated under 091

The pilot's loss of directional control and subsequent improper brake application during the landing roll in gusting wind conditions, which resulted in a nose-over.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR20CA124 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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