Cessna 180
N54AF is a Cessna 180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1954. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 12, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; other, dated August 14, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180 · all 180s and related versions
- Serial number
- 30943
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1954
- Cruising speed
- 121 mph
- Transponder code
- A6D599 (octal 51552631)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 12, 2021
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Other · August 14, 2019
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00314772
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Spohnholz Randy K
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3721 Amber Bay Loop
Anchorage, AK 99515-2318
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 N54AF, 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 Spohnholz Randy K, an individual, certificate issued January 12, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 14, 2019, 65 years after the 1954 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30943 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N54AF 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]
1 NTSB record under N54AF: Accident on September 3, 2016 at Yakutat, 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 180 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate inspection of the off-airport landing area, which resulted in an encounter with standing water and a nose over.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA16CA474 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