Cessna 185D
N1573F 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 individual in Duluth, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 28, 2008 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 15, 1965.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 185D · all 185Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 185-0949
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor I0-470 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- A0E6F7 (octal 50163367)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 28, 2008
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 15, 1965
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00590930
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith David J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1713 Hegberg Rd
Duluth, MN 55804-8604
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 N1573F, 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 Smith David J, an individual, certificate issued April 28, 2008, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 15, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 185-0949 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1573F 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]
1 NTSB record under N1573F: Accident on January 20, 1986 at St. Ignace, 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 185 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI86LA070 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