Cessna A185F
N185AV is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Remote Access Aviation LLC, an LLC in Saint Albans, Vermont. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 16, 2022 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 29, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18503434
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A15353 (octal 50251523)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 16, 2022
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 29, 1977
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00760301
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Remote Access Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2545 Highgate Rd
Saint Albans, VT 05478-9616
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N185AV, 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 Remote Access Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 16, 2022, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 29, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18503434 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N185AV was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna A185F (serial 18503351, cancelled July 15, 2008). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N185AV: Accident on June 13, 2004 at Skwentna, 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 inadequate compensation for wind conditions and his inadequate flare while landing, which resulted in a hard landing and collapse of the main landing gear. Factors associated with the accident were a downdraft, and rough and uneven terrain.
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