Cessna A185E
N2231T is a Cessna A185E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 6 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Newcastle, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 7, 2021 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 15, 1970.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185E · all A185Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 185-1383
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- A1EEB3 (octal 50367263)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 7, 2021
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 15, 1970
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00311832
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hewitt David E
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 74 Lincoln Ln
Newcastle, ME 04553-3313 - Co-owners
- Hewitt Mary E
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 N2231T, 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 Hewitt David E, a co-owned, certificate issued December 7, 2021, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 15, 1970, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 185-1383 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2231T 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]
2 NTSB records under N2231T: Accident on July 15, 2020 at Rochester, IN: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 26, 1984 at Refuge Cove, 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna A185 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing resulting in a ground loop.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN20CA285 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna A185E · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA84LA120 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
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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