Cessna 180D
N8603X 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 Patrick Springs, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 11, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 17, 1961.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180D · all 180Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 18051003
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 121 mph
- Transponder code
- ABD1AE (octal 52750656)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 11, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · June 17, 1961
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00502511
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shelton Michael E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 228 Pinewood Ln
Patrick Springs, VA 24133-3566
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 N8603X, 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 Shelton Michael E, an individual, certificate issued March 11, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. 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 18051003 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8603X 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 N8603X: Accident on May 3, 2014 at Murieta, 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 180D · operated under 091
The pilot's loss of directional control during takeoff. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's failure to abort the takeoff at the initial veer off.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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