Cessna A185F
N430RP is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Billings, Montana. The FAA lists the registration as "sale reported". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 8, 1977. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18503244
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A524A3 (octal 51222243)
Registration
- Status
- Sale reported
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- September 18, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 8, 1977
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00470301
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sale Reported
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6485 Jellison Rd
Billings, MT 59101-9316
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 1
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The public federal record on N430RP, 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.
Registration status is "Sale reported". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 8, 1977, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18503244 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N430RP according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 22, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N430RP: Accident on April 3, 2026 at Luverne, MN: 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 A185 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during a gusting crosswind landing, and the flight instructor’s delayed remedial action.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN26LA158 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