Funk B85C
N82U is a Funk B85C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Seadrift, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 7, 1997 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Funk
- Model
- B85C · all B85Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 271
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 84 mph
- Transponder code
- AB3044 (octal 52630104)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 7, 1997
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 6, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00604802
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smedley Randal C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5291 State Highway 185 E
Seadrift, TX 77983-4165
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 · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N82U, 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 Smedley Randal C, an individual, certificate issued May 7, 1997, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 271 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N82U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech D18S (serial A-269, cancelled February 16, 1971). 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 N82U. 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