Cessna A185E
N3399L is a Cessna A185E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Laurel, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 5, 2025 and expires on April 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 29, 1968.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185E · all A185Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 185-1351
- 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
- A3BADC (octal 50735334)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 5, 2025
- Expires
- April 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- April 5, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 29, 1968
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00892373
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Metz William
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2750 Wold Rd
Laurel, MT 59044-9557
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 N3399L, 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 Metz William, an individual, certificate issued April 5, 2025, expires April 30, 2032. 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 185-1351 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3399L 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 N3399L: Accident on October 14, 2003 at Cedarville, MI: 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 A185E · operated under 091
A loss of engine power for undetermined reasons. A factor associated with the accident was the rough terrain on which the airplane was landed.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI04LA023 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