Cessna 180H
N73BT is a Cessna 180H, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1965. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Dragging Tails LLC, an LLC in Colbert, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 12, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 1, 1989.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180H · all 180Hs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18051606
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 121 mph
- Transponder code
- A9C8DD (octal 52344335)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 12, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 12, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 1, 1989
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00685360
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dragging Tails LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1293 Hardman Rd
Colbert, GA 30628-1990
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.
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The public federal record on N73BT, 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 Dragging Tails LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 12, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 1, 1989, 24 years after the 1965 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18051606 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N73BT 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 N73BT: Accident on June 7, 2014 at Hesperia, CA: 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 180H · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR14CA241 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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