Cessna 185
N23CB is a Cessna 185, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Nb Tweet And Sons, a partnership in Nome, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 2, 1982 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 13, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 185 · all 185s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18503331
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- A2065B (octal 50403133)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 2, 1982
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 13, 1977
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00652062
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nb Tweet And Sons
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- PO Box 1107
Nome, AK 99762-1107
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 N23CB, 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 Nb Tweet And Sons, a partnership, certificate issued April 2, 1982, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18503331 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N23CB 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 N23CB: Accident on January 2, 1997 at Nome, AK: minor 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 185F · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to properly verify the position of a fractured fuel selector handle, which resulted in fuel starvation and subsequent loss of engine power. A factor related to the accident was: the fractured handle that allowed the fuel selector to be rotated to an OFF position.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC97LA017 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