Varga Aircraft Corp 2180
N5600M is a Varga Aircraft Corp 2180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1982. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Baker, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 17, 2009 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 8, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Varga Aircraft Corp
- Model
- 2180 · all 2180s and related versions
- Serial number
- VAC-183-82
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1982
- Transponder code
- A7294E (octal 51624516)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 17, 2009
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 8, 1982
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00840186
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Clarke Michael J
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1455 Sky Ranch Ln
Baker, FL 32531-7821 - Co-owners
- Clarke Emma D
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N5600M, 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 Clarke Michael J, a co-owned, certificate issued November 17, 2009, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 8, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial VAC-183-82 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5600M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Taylorcraft BC12E (serial 100, cancelled May 15, 1951). 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 N5600M: Accident on July 31, 1982 at Arlington, TN: serious 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: Varga 2180 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL82FLT05 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