Cessna 185D
N1526F is a Cessna 185D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1965. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 17, 2018 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 31, 1965.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 185D · all 185Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 1850869
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- A0D4CD (octal 50152315)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 17, 2018
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 31, 1965
- FAA region
- —
- FAA record id
- 00920860
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- Type
- Individual
- Address
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.
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The public federal record on N1526F, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, an individual, certificate issued September 17, 2018, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 31, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1850869 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1526F 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]
2 NTSB records under N1526F: Accident on April 7, 2025 at Wausau, WI: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 31, 1989 at Wolfeboro, NH: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 185 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control while landing in shifting wind conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN25LA153 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 185D · operated under 091
LOSS OF ENGINE POWER FOR AN UNKNOWN REASON. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: THE OBSTRUCTIONS (TREES & BOATS) IN THE EMERGENCY LANDING AREA.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC89LA181 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