Cessna A185F
N185DB is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Talarik Air LLC, an LLC in King Salmon, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 20, 2017 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 22, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18502165
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A1538C (octal 50251614)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 20, 2017
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 22, 1998
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00257161
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Talarik Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 39
King Salmon, AK 99613-0039
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N185DB, 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 Talarik Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 20, 2017, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 22, 1998, 25 years after the 1973 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 18502165 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N185DB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Maule MX-7-180 (serial 11013C, cancelled May 2, 2007). 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 N185DB: Accident on July 27, 2005 at Yakutat, 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: Maule MX7-180 · operated under 091
The pilot's selection of unsuitable terrain for landing, and his failure to maintain directional control of the airplane during the landing roll, which resulted in a nose-over. A factor contributing to the accident was soft terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC05CA109 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
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