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A Cessna 180 Skywagon, the same model family as N617R
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026
N617R

Cessna 180K

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesDelaware

N617R is a Cessna 180K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Red Baron LLC, an LLC in Middletown, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 20, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
180K · all 180Ks and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 180 Skywagon family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
180-52979
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
114 mph
Transponder code
A80A36 (octal 52005066)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
August 20, 2024
Expires
August 31, 2031
Last FAA action
August 20, 2024
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01401511

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Red Baron LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
600 N Broad St Ste 5 # 3575
Middletown, DE 19709-1032

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.

Connections how N617R links to the rest of the register

Design
Owner
Place
  • Middletown, DE 347 aircraft registered in this town
  • Summit Airport · EVY
  • Delaware 10,952 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

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Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N617R, 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 Red Baron LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 20, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 180-52979 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N617R 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 N617R: Accident on March 23, 1984 at Borinquen, PR: minor 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

MIA84LA121Accident on March 23, 1984 at Borinquen, PR: minor injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 28-4572

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-180 · operated under 091

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data