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N185TJ

Cessna A185E

Valid Idaho

N185TJ is a Cessna A185E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 6 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Gooding, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 9, 2001 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 29, 2000.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
A185E · all A185Es and related versions
Serial number
185-1532
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550 SERIES · 300 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1969
Cruising speed
125 mph
Transponder code
A154F1 (octal 50252361)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 9, 2001
Expires
April 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · December 29, 2000
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00954852

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Muchow Craig R
Type
Co-owned
Address
1451 S 1700 E
Gooding, ID 83330-5020
Co-owners
Muchow Patricia J

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.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N185TJ, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Muchow Craig R, a co-owned, certificate issued May 9, 2001, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 29, 2000, 31 years after the 1969 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 185-1532 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N185TJ according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N185TJ: Accident on August 30, 2016 at Gooding, ID: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

GAA16CA459Accident on August 30, 2016 at Gooding, ID: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna A185 · operated under 091

The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing, which resulted in a runway excursion and collision with terrain.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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