Cessna A185F
N185FK is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Talkeetna Air Taxi INC, a corporation in Talkeetna, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 17, 1998 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 9, 1992.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18502513
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A153C6 (octal 50251706)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 17, 1998
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- September 5, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 9, 1992
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00005581
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Talkeetna Air Taxi INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 73
Talkeetna, AK 99676-0073
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 N185FK, 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 Talkeetna Air Taxi INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 17, 1998, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 9, 1992, 18 years after the 1974 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 18502513 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N185FK 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]
2 NTSB records under N185FK: Accident on March 8, 2013 at Talkeetna, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on November 8, 1993 at Chefornak, 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna A185F · operated under 135
The overstress fracture and failure of the right wheel/ski arm while taxiing in snow and water-overflow terrain conditions, which resulted in a noseover.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna A185F · operated under 135
THE FAILURE OF THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND TO ADEQUATELY COMPENSATE FOR THE GUSTY CROSS WIND CONDITION. A FACTOR IN THE ACCIDENT WAS THE WIND GUST.
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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data