Cessna A185E
N36ZN is a Cessna A185E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1970. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Trinity, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 10, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 26, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185E · all A185Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 18501830
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-520-D · 300 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1970
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- A40C3F (octal 51006077)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 10, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 26, 2022
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01366884
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dawkins Christopher R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4848 Willow Bend Rd
Trinity, NC 27370-8683
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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 N36ZN, 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 Dawkins Christopher R, an individual, certificate issued March 10, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 26, 2022, 52 years after the 1970 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 18501830 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N36ZN 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 N36ZN: Accident on October 22, 2022 at York, PA: 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
Oil starvation of the number 1 connecting rod bearings, which resulted in a total loss of engine power.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA23LA034 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