Cessna 180J
N601RF is a Cessna 180J, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Englewood, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 22, 2016 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 22, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180J · all 180Js and related versions
- Serial number
- 18052560
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 120 mph
- Transponder code
- A7CC73 (octal 51746163)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 22, 2016
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 22, 2001
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00500836
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pearson Nils C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 27 Pearl St
Englewood, FL 34223-5738
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 N601RF, 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 Pearson Nils C, an individual, certificate issued August 22, 2016, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 22, 2001, 26 years after the 1975 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 18052560 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N601RF 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 N601RF: Accident on July 24, 1994 at Waynesburg, OH: serious injuries, substantial damage. Accident on March 4, 1989 at W. Columbia, SC: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 180 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed which resulted in a stall/mush. A factor was a tailwind.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC94LA138 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 180J · operated under 091
IMPROPER TORQUING OF THE ATTACHMENT BOLT DURING INSTALLATION BY UNKNOWN PERSON(S), WHICH RESULTED IN THE SEPARATION OF THE BOLT AND NUT AND SUBSEQUENT SEPARATION OF THE MAIN LANDING GEAR FROM THE AIRPLANE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL89LA097 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