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Cessna 180D
N6471X is a Cessna 180D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Plano, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 4, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 2, 1964.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180D · all 180Ds and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe 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
- 18050971
- 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 · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 121 mph
- Transponder code
- A881CD (octal 52100715)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 4, 2023
- Expires
- October 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 2, 1964
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00992406
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Climie Kenneth A
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1904 Deerfield Dr
Plano, TX 75023-5109
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 N6471X links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 180 Skywagon 2,605 registered
- Cessna 72,684 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental O-470 series 12,780 aircraft with this engine series · 230 hp
- Plano, TX 181 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,945 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 180 Skywagon 37 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 180 Skywagon 281 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 180 Skywagon 518 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental O-470 series 23 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental O-470 series 148 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N6471X, 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 Climie Kenneth A, an individual, certificate issued October 4, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18050971 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6471X 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 N6471X: Accident on June 2, 1998 at Natchez, MS: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 180D · operated under 091
The pilot's improper use of brakes on landing rollout. The tailwind was a factor.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data