Cessna 172L
N8180M is a Cessna 172L, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Leap Aviation INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 7, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 12, 1972. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172L · all 172Ls and related versions
- Serial number
- 17260570
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AB2978 (octal 52624570)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 7, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · May 12, 1972
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00900052
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Leap Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 5303 Limestone Rd Ste 200
Wilmington, DE 19808
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
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N8180M, 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 Leap Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 7, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17260570 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8180M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 310I (serial 310I0180, cancelled November 12, 1964). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 30, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8180M. 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