Cessna A185F
N185BW is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lebanon, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 20, 1999 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 29, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18503232
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A1536D (octal 50251555)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 20, 1999
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 29, 1976
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00100441
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Langdon William
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 42480 Upper Berlin Dr
Lebanon, OR 97355-9744
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 N185BW, 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 Langdon William, an individual, certificate issued October 20, 1999, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 29, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18503232 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N185BW 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]
1 NTSB record under N185BW: Accident on July 14, 2013 at Cascade, ID: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna A185F · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain clearance from trees during final approach due to the sun glare that obscured the pilot's vision.
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