Cessna A185F
N2431Y is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Normangee, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 15, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 3, 1994.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18503566
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A23DB6 (octal 50436666)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 15, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 30, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 3, 1994
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00985012
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bennett Mark
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3763 County Road 490
Normangee, TX 77871-6387
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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 N2431Y, 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 Bennett Mark, an individual, certificate issued July 15, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. 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 18503566 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2431Y 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 N2431Y: Accident on August 4, 1996 at Casa Grande, AZ: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna A185F · operated under 091
the student pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the airplane, which resulted in an inadvertent ground loop. Factors relating to the accident were: the student pilot's inadequate training and lack of certification (endorsement).
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX96LA307 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