{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1963-10-11","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-03-04","city":"EAGLE RIVER","country_code":"US","county_code":"020","cruise_speed_mph":125,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2031-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-03-04","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2072802","mode_s_code":"52734272","mode_s_hex":"ABB8BA","model":"185","n_number":"N8541L","name":"GREAT BASIN AVIATION LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8541L is a Cessna 185, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Great Basin Aviation LLC, an LLC in Eagle River, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 4, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 11, 1963.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Great Basin Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 4, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 185-0118 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N8541L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-25-235 (serial 25-4962, cancelled February 21, 1979). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N8541L. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Alaskan","region_code":"5","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":6,"serial_number":"185-0118","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AK","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 771838","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00532731","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8541L","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"995771838"}