Cessna A185F
N185FT is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Aledo, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 19, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 8, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18503329
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A153CE (octal 50251716)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 19, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 19, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 8, 1999
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00793926
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Spence Bryan
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 220 Quail Ridge Rd
Aledo, TX 76008-2829
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 N185FT, 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 Spence Bryan, an individual, certificate issued September 19, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 8, 1999, 22 years after the 1977 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 18503329 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N185FT 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 N185FT: Accident on May 4, 2019 at Kalispell, MT: 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 A185 · operated under 091
The loss of directional control during landing for reasons that could not be determined based on available evidence.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR19LA134 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