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N1393F

Cessna A185F

Valid Texas

N1393F is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Blanco, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 2, 2011 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated September 8, 1975.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
Serial number
18502840
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1975
Cruising speed
127 mph
Transponder code
A09F67 (octal 50117547)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 2, 2011
Expires
September 30, 2027
Last FAA action
March 17, 2023
Airworthiness
Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · September 8, 1975
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00531560

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Benham John D
Type
Individual
Address
1589 Rocky Rd
Blanco, TX 78606-4338

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Documents on file 0

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

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N1393F, 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 Benham John D, an individual, certificate issued September 2, 2011, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated September 8, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18502840 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N1393F according to the deregistered file. [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 N1393F: Accident on July 5, 2021 at Blanco, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. 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

CEN21LA317Accident on July 5, 2021 at Blanco, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna A185F · operated under 091

The unexpected change in wind speed and direction during the landing which resulted a runway overrun.

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