Cessna A185F
N59AJ is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Bird Dog Aircraft LLC, an LLC in Billings, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 18, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated January 23, 1985.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18504158
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1981
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A79B17 (octal 51715427)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 18, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- December 18, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development · January 23, 1985
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00671296
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bird Dog Aircraft LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 518 Shadow Lawn Ct
Billings, MT 59102-8539
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 N59AJ, 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 Bird Dog Aircraft LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 18, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 23, 1985, 4 years after the 1981 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 18504158 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N59AJ was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Douglas DC-8-33 (serial 45272, cancelled January 9, 1991). 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 N59AJ. 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