Cessna A185E
N185AR is a Cessna A185E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Wattum Investments LLC, an LLC in Kodiak, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 3, 2017 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 18, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185E · all A185Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 1851464
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- A1534F (octal 50251517)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 3, 2017
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 18, 1998
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00557221
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wattum Investments LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 8955
Kodiak, AK 99615-8955
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 N185AR, 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 Wattum Investments LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 3, 2017, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 18, 1998, 29 years after the 1969 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 1851464 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N185AR 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 N185AR: Accident on April 9, 2008 at Big Lake, 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 091
The pilot's failure to refuel the airplane prior to fuel exhaustion.
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