Cessna A185F
N888DK is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1982. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Alexandria, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 1, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 29, 1985.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18504385
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1982
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- AC3BE2 (octal 53035742)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 1, 2024
- Expires
- August 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- August 1, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 29, 1985
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00420205
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Calderon Jose Manuel
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3305 Cameron Mills Rd
Alexandria, VA 22302-2212
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N888DK, 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 Calderon Jose Manuel, an individual, certificate issued August 1, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 29, 1985, 3 years after the 1982 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 18504385 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N888DK was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K (serial 250862, cancelled August 13, 1990). 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 N888DK: Accident on July 19, 2025 at Lansing, MI: 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 A185F · operated under 091
The pilot’s improper landing flare and subsequent failure to maintain directional control during the landing in a crosswind condition.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN25LA260 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