Cessna 185A
N1689Z 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 T&R Airplane LLC, an LLC in Big Lake, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 6, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated September 14, 1962.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 185A · all 185As and related versions
- Serial number
- 1850489
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor I0-470 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1962
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- A11311 (octal 50211421)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 6, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 6, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · September 14, 1962
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00342230
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- T&R Airplane LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 520502
Big Lake, AK 99652-0502
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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 N1689Z, 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 T&R Airplane LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 6, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated September 14, 1962, consistent with the 1962 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1850489 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1689Z 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 N1689Z: Accident on July 13, 1991 at Wood 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 185A · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT PLANNING/DECISION, WHICH RESULTED IN FUEL EXHAUSTION DUE TO AN INADEQUATE SUPPLY OF FUEL. SOFT SAND IN THE EMERGENCY LANDING AREA WAS A RELATED FACTOR.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC91LA098 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