Cessna A185F
N185DX is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1982. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Fixed Wing Aviation LLC, an LLC in Woods Cross, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 4, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 20, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18504361
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1982
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A153A0 (octal 50251640)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 4, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 20, 2024
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00320311
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fixed Wing Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1933 Thunderbird Dr Ste B
Woods Cross, UT 84087-2537
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 N185DX, 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 Fixed Wing Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 4, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 20, 2024, 42 years after the 1982 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 18504361 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N185DX was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-32R-301 (serial 32R-8013039, cancelled March 12, 2018). 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 N185DX: Accident on May 15, 2016 at Alpine, TX: 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: Piper PA 32R · operated under 091
The engine’s decreased performance due to high-density altitude conditions and a partially obstructed fuel injector nozzle. Contributing to the pilot's decision to perform an off-field landing was the anomalous high exhaust gas temperature reading.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN16LA186 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