Cessna 180A
N9588B is a Cessna 180A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1957. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 26, 1991 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 22, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180A · all 180As and related versions
- Serial number
- 32885
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1957
- Cruising speed
- 121 mph
- Transponder code
- AD55D1 (octal 53252721)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 26, 1991
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 22, 1957
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00824390
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Timothy E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 8251 Opal Dr
Anchorage, AK 99502
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 N9588B, 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 Smith Timothy E, an individual, certificate issued June 26, 1991, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated April 22, 1957, consistent with the 1957 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32885 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9588B 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]
2 NTSB records under N9588B: Accident on August 22, 2015 at Homer, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 24, 2006 at Anchor Point, AK: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 180 · operated under 135
The pilot's loss of directional control during landing, resulting in a collision with terrain.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 180 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate compensation for wind conditions, which resulted in a collision with high brush during the landing flare. A factor contributing to the accident was wind gusts.
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