Cessna 180
N56180 is a Cessna 180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1955. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bayfield, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 3, 2012 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated December 17, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180 · all 180s and related versions
- Serial number
- 32165
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1955
- Cruising speed
- 121 mph
- Transponder code
- A72E2A (octal 51627052)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 3, 2012
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · December 17, 1955
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00222303
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gosney Don L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 256
Bayfield, CO 81122-0256
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 N56180, 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 Gosney Don L, an individual, certificate issued May 3, 2012, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated December 17, 1955, consistent with the 1955 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32165 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N56180 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 N56180: Accident on February 18, 2012 at South Fork, CO: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on February 12, 1995 at Yuma, AZ: serious injuries, destroyed. 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 180 · operated under 091
The pilot's loss of directional control while landing on a patchy snow-covered runway.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN12CA160 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Varga 2150A · operated under 091
fuel exhaustion due to the pilot's inadequate preflight inspection and his failure to refuel the aircraft.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX95LA107 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