Cessna A185F
N185TB 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 Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 19, 2003 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 25, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18504008
- 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
- A154EA (octal 50252352)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 19, 2003
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 25, 1980
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00881346
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Johnson Nathan L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 960 Amanita Rd
Fairbanks, AK 99712-2931
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 N185TB, 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 Johnson Nathan L, an individual, certificate issued December 19, 2003, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 25, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18504008 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N185TB 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 N185TB: Accident on August 6, 2003 at Iliamna, AK: 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
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance during takeoff, which resulted in an in-flight collision with terrain.
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