Cessna A185F
N125KT is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Rustair INC, a corporation in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 19, 1996 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 7, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18503494
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A06738 (octal 50063470)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 19, 1996
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 7, 1977
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00022740
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rustair INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 190867
Anchorage, AK 99519-0867
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.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N125KT, 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 Rustair INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 19, 1996, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 7, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18503494 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N125KT according to the deregistered file. [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]
3 NTSB records under N125KT: Accident on May 17, 2011 at Talkeetna, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 5, 2008 at Talkeetna, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on June 18, 1992 at Talkeetna, AK: 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 3
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna A185F · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC11CA032 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 185 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll. Contributing to the accident was an inadvertent ground-loop.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC08CA062 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 185F · operated under 135
FAILURE TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL. FACTORS INCLUDE TAILWHEEL VIBRATION/SHIMMY, AND AN INADVERTENT GROUND LOOP.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC92LA093 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data