Cessna 180D
N8609X is a Cessna 180D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Lander, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 21, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 26, 1961.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180D · all 180Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 18051009
- 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
- ABD280 (octal 52751200)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 21, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 21, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 26, 1961
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00562501
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wilson J Brent Trustee
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1525 N 2Nd St
Lander, WY 82520-9733 - Co-owners
- Wilson Gina D Trustee
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 N8609X, 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 Wilson J Brent Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued May 21, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. 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 18051009 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8609X 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 N8609X: Accident on January 10, 2005 at Billings, MT: 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 180 · operated under 091
The pilot's improper flare and his failure to maintain aircraft control. The pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing is a contributing factor.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA05CA033 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