Cessna 180E
N8679X is a Cessna 180E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1961. It has 4 seats. It is registered to High Mountain Air LLC, an LLC in Missoula, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 28, 2017 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; weather control, dated June 8, 1965.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180E · all 180Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 18051079
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 121 mph
- Transponder code
- ABEC81 (octal 52766201)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 28, 2017
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Weather control · June 8, 1965
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00352341
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- High Mountain Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 7967
Missoula, MT 59807-7967
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 N8679X, 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 High Mountain Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 28, 2017, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 8, 1965, 4 years after the 1961 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 18051079 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8679X 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 N8679X: Accident on May 6, 1990 at Helena, 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 C-180E · operated under 091
THE MALFUNCTION OF THE TAIL WHEEL ASSEMBLY.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN90LA105 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