Cessna A185E
N3385L is a Cessna A185E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Tonka Seaplanes LLC, an LLC in Minnetonka, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 29, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 28, 1967.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185E · all A185Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 185-1337
- 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
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- A3B699 (octal 50733231)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 29, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 29, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 28, 1967
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00592343
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tonka Seaplanes LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 4918 Dominick Dr
Minnetonka, MN 55343-8748
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 N3385L, 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 Tonka Seaplanes LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 29, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. 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 185-1337 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3385L 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 N3385L: Accident on June 23, 1999 at East Haddam, CT: serious 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 185E · operated under 091
The loss of engine power due to water in the fuel system.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC99LA156 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
