Cessna A185F
N185DE is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Heritage Construction CO LLC, an LLC in Austin, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 8, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 19, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18503523
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A1538F (octal 50251617)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 8, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 8, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 19, 1997
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00476661
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Heritage Construction CO LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1603 Newfield Ln
Austin, TX 78703-3318
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 N185DE, 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 Heritage Construction CO LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 8, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 19, 1997, 19 years after the 1978 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. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18503523 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N185DE 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 N185DE: Accident on June 25, 2000 at Marana, AZ: 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 excessive use of wheel brakes during the landing roll resulting in the airplane's nosing over.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX00LA243 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 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