Cessna A185E
N3086W is a Cessna A185E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Altair Aircraft LLC, an LLC in Gainesville, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 18, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 6, 1991.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185E · all A185Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 18502042
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- A34049 (octal 50640111)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 18, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 6, 1991
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00333602
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Altair Aircraft LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 12405 NW 39Th Ave
Gainesville, FL 32606-4811
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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 N3086W, 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 Altair Aircraft LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 18, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 6, 1991, 19 years after the 1972 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 18502042 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3086W 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 N3086W: Accident on July 2, 2020 at San Diego, CA: 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 A185 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain airplane control during landing with a crosswind and excessive braking action, which resulted in the airplane nosing over.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR20CA204 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
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data