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N520YH

Cessna A185F

Valid Idaho

N520YH is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mccall, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 18, 2003 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 23, 2001.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
Serial number
18503619
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-520 SER · 285 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1978
Cruising speed
127 mph
Transponder code
A68B1C (octal 51505434)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 18, 2003
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 29, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · October 23, 2001
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00323675

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Turnbull Timothy H
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 1030
Mccall, ID 83638-1030

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.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N520YH, 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 Turnbull Timothy H, an individual, certificate issued March 18, 2003, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 23, 2001, 23 years after the 1978 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18503619 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N520YH 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 N520YH: Accident on October 28, 2011 at Prineville, OR: no 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

WPR12LA023Accident on October 28, 2011 at Prineville, OR: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 185 · operated under 091

A total loss of engine power due to fuel starvation, which resulted from the pilot inadvertently leaving the fuel selector set to the left tank. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s deviation from his normal habit pattern and his failure to refer to the in-flight engine failure checklist after the engine power loss.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR12LA023 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