Cessna 180A
N185F is a Cessna 180A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1957. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lubbock, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 30, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated December 17, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 180A · all 180As and related versions
- Serial number
- 50123
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1957
- Cruising speed
- 121 mph
- Transponder code
- A153BC (octal 50251674)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 30, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 30, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · December 17, 1957
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00872660
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kennedy Riley F
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3004 104Th St
Lubbock, TX 79423-6088
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 N185F, 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 Kennedy Riley F, an individual, certificate issued October 30, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated December 17, 1957, consistent with the 1957 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 50123 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N185F 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 N185F: Accident on October 27, 1995 at Goose Lake, IA: 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 180A · operated under 091
inadequate maintenance, inadequate preflight by the pilot, and a loose fuel tank cap that allowed siphoning of fuel, buckling of the right fuel bladder, fuel exhaustion, and loss of engine power. Factors relating to the accident were: darkness, and the soft terrain and crop in the emergency landing area.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI96LA020 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
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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