Cessna 180A
N889SL is a Cessna 180A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1958. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bedford, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 8, 2022 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 11, 1958.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180A · all 180As and related versions
- Serial number
- 50226
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1958
- Cruising speed
- 121 mph
- Transponder code
- AC40DF (octal 53040337)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 8, 2022
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- October 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · March 11, 1958
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00492765
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cunningham Richard Scott
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1200 Hillandale Ct
Bedford, TX 76021-6504
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 N889SL, 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 Cunningham Richard Scott, an individual, certificate issued November 8, 2022, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated March 11, 1958, consistent with the 1958 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 50226 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N889SL 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 N889SL: Accident on July 5, 2023 at Grand Prairie, TX: 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 180A · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during landing. Contributing to the accident was the unexpected sudden wind shift.
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 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