Cessna 185A
N1686Z is a Cessna 185A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1963. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lance Creek, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 22, 2016 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 6, 1963.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 185A · all 185As and related versions
- Serial number
- 1850486
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor I0-470 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1963
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- A112A8 (octal 50211250)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 22, 2016
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 6, 1963
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00852230
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bruegger Shannon B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 496 Cow Creek Rd
Lance Creek, WY 82222-9517
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 N1686Z, 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 Bruegger Shannon B, an individual, certificate issued July 22, 2016, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 6, 1963, consistent with the 1963 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1850486 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1686Z 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 N1686Z: Accident on July 28, 1987 at Hillsboro, ND: 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 185A · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN87LA200 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