Cessna A185F
N185RX is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Eugene, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 13, 1991 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 27, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18504118
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1980
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A154CC (octal 50252314)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 13, 1991
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 27, 1980
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00721226
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hirons John L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 86244 Lorane Hwy
Eugene, OR 97405-9201
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 N185RX, 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 Hirons John L, an individual, certificate issued August 13, 1991, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 27, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18504118 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N185RX 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 N185RX: Accident on May 9, 2017 at Columbia, CA: 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 pilot’s failure to maintain directional control in tailwind and crosswind conditions.
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