Cessna 185C
N393M is a Cessna 185C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1964. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Usda Forest Service Fepp, a government body in Helena, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 4, 1978 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 10, 1964.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 185C · all 185Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 185-0684
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor I0-470 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1964
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- A48F01 (octal 51107401)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 4, 1978
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 10, 1964
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00790574
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Usda Forest Service Fepp
- Type
- Government
- Address
- PO Box 201601
Helena, MT 59620-1601 - Co-owners
- State Of Montana / Department Of Lands
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.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N393M, 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 Usda Forest Service Fepp, a government body, certificate issued May 4, 1978, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 10, 1964, consistent with the 1964 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 185-0684 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N393M was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech AT-11 (serial 4553, cancelled November 18, 2017); Travel Air E-4000 (serial 1316, cancelled June 20, 1932). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N393M. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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