Cessna 185A
N1688Z is a Cessna 185A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 6 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Mesa, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 3, 2022 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 16, 1962.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 185A · all 185As and related versions
- Serial number
- 1850488
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor I0-470 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- A112EE (octal 50211356)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 3, 2022
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · August 16, 1962
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00401892
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mock David J
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 8948 E Decatur Rd
Mesa, AZ 85207-6002 - Co-owners
- Mock Sylvia S
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 N1688Z, 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 Mock David J, a co-owned, certificate issued September 3, 2022, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1850488 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1688Z 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 N1688Z: Accident on September 21, 1984 at Mt Plummer, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 14, 1983 at Aniak, 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 185 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC84LA191 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 185A · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC83LA185 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