Cessna 185E
N1592F is a Cessna 185E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pilot Point, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 6, 1994 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 26, 1966.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Minta, INC., so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 185E · all 185Es and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 185 Skywagon family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 185-0974
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- A0EE42 (octal 50167102)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 6, 1994
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 26, 1966
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00581300
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Reynolds Frederick A
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 492
Pilot Point, AK 99649-0492
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.
Connections how N1592F links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 185 Skywagon 228 registered
- Cessna 72,682 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Minta, INC. · charter operator
- Continental IO-520 series 9,485 aircraft with this engine series · 285 hp
- Pilot Point, AK 3 aircraft registered in this town
- Pilot Point Airport · PNP
- Ugashik Bay Airport · UGB
- Alaska 9,142 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 185 Skywagon 31 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 185 Skywagon 69 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 185 Skywagon 338 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-520 series 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-520 series 465 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N1592F, 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 Reynolds Frederick A, an individual, certificate issued January 6, 1994, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 26, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 185-0974 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1592F 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]
4 NTSB records under N1592F: Accident on September 29, 2013 at Pilot Point, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 10, 2005 at Pilot Point, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on November 7, 1989 at Anchorage, 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 4
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 185E · operated under 091
The pilot's decision to land the airplane on the ramp, in the vicinity of buildings, in gusty wind conditions.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 185E · operated under 091
The pilot's misjudged landing flare, which resulted in a hard landing and an overload failure of the main landing gear during the landing touchdown.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna A185E · operated under 091
THE THROTTLE CONTROL LINKAGE BECAME DISCONNECTED ON THE FIRST FLIGHT AFTER AN ANNUAL INSPECTION DUE TO IMPROPER MAINTENANCE. DARKNESS AND HIGH VEGETATION WERE CONTRIBUTING FACTORS.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 185E · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data
