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N9180S

Cessna U206G

Valid Texas

N9180S is a Cessna U206G, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboshaft engines, built in 1977. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Corpus Christi, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 23, 2018 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 2, 2005.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
U206G · all U206Gs and related versions
Serial number
U20603996
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-520-F · 300 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1977
Cruising speed
132 mph
Transponder code
ACB6CC (octal 53133314)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 23, 2018
Expires
January 31, 2028
Last FAA action
February 2, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · July 2, 2005
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00663932

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Towns Michael J
Type
Individual
Address
14330 Emerald St
Corpus Christi, TX 78418-6014

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

2002-08-28Beech C23 · Valid registration

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N9180S, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Towns Michael J, an individual, certificate issued January 23, 2018, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 2, 2005, 28 years after the 1977 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial U20603996 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N9180S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech C23 (serial M-1801, cancelled August 28, 2002). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N9180S: Accident on April 28, 2002 at Oak Shores, CA: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

LAX02FA148Accident on April 28, 2002 at Oak Shores, CA: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal).serial on NTSB record: M-1801

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech C23 · operated under 091

the number 1 cylinder exhaust valve fractured and separated resulting in a loss of engine power and an off airport forced landing. A finding in the accident was the owner's failure to maintain the engine in accordance with the manufacturer's recommendations.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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