{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2024-07-12","airworthiness_ops":"Research and development","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2003-11-08","city":"WELLINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"191","cruise_speed_mph":121,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17210","engine_horsepower":300,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"IO-550-D","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-02-28","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-08-24","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2072618","mode_s_code":"50240272","mode_s_hex":"A140BA","model":"180H","n_number":"N180AP","name":"AIR PLAINS SERVICES CORP","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N180AP is a Cessna 180H, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1965. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Air Plains Services CORP, a corporation in Wellington, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 8, 2003 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated July 12, 2024.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Air Plains Services CORP, a corporation, certificate issued November 8, 2003, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 12, 2024, 59 years after the 1965 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18051472 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N180AP according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N180AP. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":6,"serial_number":"18051472","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"KS","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"439 N WEST RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00030085","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N180AP","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1965,"zip":"671528047"}