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N3385L

Cessna A185E

Valid Minnesota

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

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Tonka Seaplanes LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 29, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 185-1337 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N3385L according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N3385L: Accident on June 23, 1999 at East Haddam, CT: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

NYC99LA156Accident on June 23, 1999 at East Haddam, CT: serious injuries, substantial damage.

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

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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