Cessna A185E
N2303Y is a Cessna A185E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Bentz Fence Company INC, a corporation in Lewiston, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 27, 1980 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 11, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185E · all A185Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 185-01868
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1971
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- A20B58 (octal 50405530)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 27, 1980
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 11, 1978
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00042082
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bentz Fence Company INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1309 Powers
Lewiston, ID 83501
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 N2303Y, 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 Bentz Fence Company INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 27, 1980, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 11, 1978, 7 years after the 1971 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 185-01868 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2303Y 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 N2303Y: Accident on April 7, 2013 at Cottonwood, ID: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on January 30, 2006 at Lewiston, ID: 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 A185E · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to see and avoid an object on the grass airstrip during the takeoff.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR13CA199 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna A185E · operated under 091
The failure of the left main landing gear attaching bolt, which resulted in the left main gear collapsing during the landing roll.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA06CA048 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