Funk B85C
N24157 is a Funk B85C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1940. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Indy Air Sales LLC, an LLC in Anderson, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 14, 1964.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Funk
- Model
- B85C · all B85Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 183
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1940
- Cruising speed
- 84 mph
- Transponder code
- A236DD (octal 50433335)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- December 3, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 14, 1964
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00572572
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Indy Air Sales LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 282 Airport Rd
Anderson, IN 46017-9550
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 N24157, 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 Indy Air Sales LLC, an LLC, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 14, 1964, 24 years after the 1940 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 183 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N24157 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 N24157: Accident on November 4, 2025 at Anderson, IN: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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: Funk B85C · operated under 091
On November 4, 2025, about 12:45 eastern standard time, a Funk B85C airplane, N24157 was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Anderson, Indiana. The pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 as a personal flight. The airplane departed a private grass airfield (II26) in Wolcott, Indiana, earlier on the day of the accident and was enroute to Anderson Regional Airport (AID), Anderson, Indiana. The airplane was recently purchased, and the pilot was flying the airplane to AID for the new owner. A video was…
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN26FA034 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