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N185DW

Cessna A185E

N185DW is a Cessna A185E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mount Vernon, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 21, 2020 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 2, 1971.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
A185E · all A185Es and related versions
Serial number
18501840
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1971
Cruising speed
125 mph
Transponder code
A1539F (octal 50251637)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 21, 2020
Expires
February 28, 2030
Last FAA action
October 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · April 2, 1971
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00512851

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Thomaier Daniel T
Type
Individual
Address
33720 Bamboo Ln
Mount Vernon, WA 98274-8206

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N185DW, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Thomaier Daniel T, an individual, certificate issued February 21, 2020, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated April 2, 1971, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18501840 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N185DW according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N185DW. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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