Cessna 180K
N65999 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 Shallowater, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 10, 1984 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 18, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180K · all 180Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 18052903
- 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
- A8B1DE (octal 52130736)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 10, 1984
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 18, 1977
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00132826
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vaughn Thomas N
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 11302 Highway 84 Unit 10
Shallowater, TX 79363-3213
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N65999, 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 Vaughn Thomas N, an individual, certificate issued October 10, 1984, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 18, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18052903 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N65999 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N65999. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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