Cessna 185A
N1650Z is a Cessna 185A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1962. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Olivet, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 12, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other, dated June 16, 1994.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 185A · all 185As and related versions
- Serial number
- 185-0450
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1962
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- A106B1 (octal 50203261)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 12, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Other · June 16, 1994
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00702140
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Robinson Christopher C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7742 Matthews Rd
Olivet, MI 49076-8630
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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 N1650Z, 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 Robinson Christopher C, an individual, certificate issued December 12, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 16, 1994, 32 years after the 1962 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 185-0450 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1650Z 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 N1650Z: Accident on July 19, 1991 at Jago River, 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 185 · operated under 135
THE PILOT'S LOSS OF DIRECTIONAL CONTROL OF THE AIRPLANE DURING THE LANDING ROLL. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE WET SURFACE OF THE AIRSTRIP, THE CURVE IN THE AIRSTRIP, AND THE VEGETATION WHICH COVERED THE ENTIRE AIRSTRIP.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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