Cessna 180
N6503A is a Cessna 180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1956. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Eustace, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 17, 2003 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 9, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180 · all 180s and related versions
- Serial number
- 32400
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1956
- Cruising speed
- 121 mph
- Transponder code
- A88F7C (octal 52107574)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 17, 2003
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · March 9, 1956
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00072516
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Brown Paul N
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 13633 County Road 2857
Eustace, TX 75124-5319
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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 N6503A, 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 Brown Paul N, an individual, certificate issued November 17, 2003, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated March 9, 1956, consistent with the 1956 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32400 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6503A 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 N6503A: Accident on September 12, 1998 at Lakeshore, MD: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on June 21, 1991 at Grand Rapids, MN: 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
Failures of the right float's nose wheel do to a preexisting fatigue crack.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 180 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN A PROPER AIRSPEED DURING LANDING AND THE IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM A BOUNCED LANDING. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE THE PILOT'S LACK OF TOTAL EXPERIENCE IN SEAPLANES AND THE GUSTY WIND CONDITION.
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 September 30, 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