Cessna A185F
N185ND is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1982. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Greenville, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 16, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 20, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18504369
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1982
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A1546F (octal 50252157)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 16, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 20, 1982
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00620031
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Folsom Rodney B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 512
Greenville, ME 04441-0512
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N185ND, 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 Folsom Rodney B, an individual, certificate issued April 16, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 20, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18504369 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N185ND was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28R-201 (serial 2837064, cancelled October 15, 1991). 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]
1 NTSB record under N185ND: Accident on October 3, 1996 at Finley, ND: 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 185 · operated under 091
failure of the flight instructor (CFI) to ensure that clearance from the dock was maintained, while starting to taxi. The crosswind was a related factor.
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
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