Cessna 180K
N66040 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 Sierra Auto Recycling INC, a corporation in Ridgecrest, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 12, 1978 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 7, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180K · all 180Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 18052911
- 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
- A8B736 (octal 52133466)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 12, 1978
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 7, 1977
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00602866
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sierra Auto Recycling INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 401 Inyokern Rd
Ridgecrest, CA 93555
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N66040, 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 Sierra Auto Recycling INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 12, 1978, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 7, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18052911 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N66040 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Consolidated Vultee BT-13A (serial 2353, cancelled July 15, 1954). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N66040. 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