Cessna A185F
N5403E is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 6 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Wrangell, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 10, 2015 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 12, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18503963
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A6DAB2 (octal 51555262)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 10, 2015
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 12, 1979
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00413025
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Buness Timothy A
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 66
Wrangell, AK 99929-0066 - Co-owners
- Buness Jordan T
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N5403E, 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 Buness Timothy A, a co-owned, certificate issued March 10, 2015, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 12, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18503963 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5403E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: General Gyro GGA-5A (serial SR-1, cancelled August 5, 1974). 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]
1 NTSB record under N5403E: Accident on June 28, 2008 at Rainier, OR: minor 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 A185F · operated under 091
The inadvertent extension of the left float's landing gear to near the down position due to a failure of the gear's rear hydraulic seal.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX08LA201 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