Cessna 180D
N8005J 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 Granbury, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 25, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated July 10, 2009. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180D · all 180Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 180-51037
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470-L · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 121 mph
- Transponder code
- AAE4ED (octal 52562355)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 25, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 25, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · July 10, 2009
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00284079
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Welch Louis
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6115 Bonanza Dr
Granbury, TX 76049-4503
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 1
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The public federal record on N8005J, 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 Welch Louis, an individual, certificate issued September 25, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 180-51037 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8005J according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 23, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N8005J: Accident on May 24, 1982 at Winter Garden, FL: no injuries, destroyed. 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: Lake LA-4 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA82DA123 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
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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