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N111C

Cessna A185F

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesArkansas

N111C is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Ace'S Hangar LLC, an LLC in Bentonville, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 29, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 5, 1974.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna A185 Skywagon family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
18502600
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
6
Year built
1974
Cruising speed
127 mph
Transponder code
A0301C (octal 50030034)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
October 29, 2025
Expires
October 31, 2032
Last FAA action
October 29, 2025
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 5, 1974
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00800255

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Ace'S Hangar LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
10707 Sagamore Ln
Bentonville, AR 72712-8015

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 2

1992-12-15Carlson MIDGET MUSTANG I · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1965-06-16Mooney M-18L · Valid registration

Connections how N111C links to the rest of the register

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Owner
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The public federal record on N111C, 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 Ace'S Hangar LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 29, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated December 5, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18502600 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N111C was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Carlson MIDGET MUSTANG I (serial 288, cancelled December 15, 1992); Mooney M-18L (serial 72, cancelled June 16, 1965). 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 N111C: Accident on October 4, 1992 at Baker, OR: fatal, destroyed (1 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

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NTSB records 1

SEA93LA004Accident on October 4, 1992 at Baker, OR: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 288

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Carlson MIDGET MUSTANG · operated under 091

AN INADVERTENT STALL/SPIN BY THE PILOT IN COMMAND. A FACTOR CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE PILOT IN COMMAND'S LACK OF RECENT EXPERIENCE.

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 November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data