Bice David E BEARHAWK
N1685 is a Bice David E BEARHAWK, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2008. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Lane Aviation LLC, an LLC in Tijeras, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 31, 2015 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 25, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bice David E
- Model
- BEARHAWK
- Serial number
- 030-53/54-704
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2008
- Kit
- AVIPRO AIRCRAFT LTD BEARHAWK
- Transponder code
- A1126D (octal 50211155)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 31, 2015
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 25, 2008
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00358589
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lane Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 7 Coyote Canyon Trl
Tijeras, NM 87059-7535
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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 3
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The public federal record on N1685, 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 Lane Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 31, 2015, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 25, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 030-53/54-704 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1685 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Convair 240 (serial 413, cancelled February 11, 1976); Teller Copter ROTORCRAFT (serial 2, cancelled June 14, 1971); Waco 10 (serial 912, cancelled August 21, 1938). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
3 NTSB records under N1685: Accident on April 20, 2024 at Buckhorn, NM: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on April 10, 2018 at Edgewood, NM: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 27, 2008 at Double Eagle Airport, NM: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 3
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bearhawk 4-Place · operated under 091
The pilot’s inflight loss of control during landing following an encounter with a wind gust which resulted in a hard landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bice David E BEARHAWK · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control of the airplane during landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bice David E BEARHAWK · operated under 091
The pilot flared high and failed to maintain directional control. Contributing to the accident were the pilot's unfamiliarity with the airplane and the crosswind.
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