Cessna 180K
N64257 is a Cessna 180K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Shipshewana, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 19, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 12, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180K · all 180Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 18052887
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 114 mph
- Transponder code
- A86FD0 (octal 52067720)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 19, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 19, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 12, 1977
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00242256
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lutes Ralph E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 8845 W 350 N
Shipshewana, IN 46565-9655
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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 N64257, 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 Lutes Ralph E, an individual, certificate issued June 19, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 12, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18052887 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N64257 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 N64257: Accident on October 1, 2006 at Barton City, MI: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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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 180K · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to attain a proper touchdown point and his inadvertent selection of a downwind runway, which resulted in the overrun. A contributing factor was the tailwind encountered during landing. Additional factors were the wet, turf runway, and the rock pile located off the end of the runway.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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