Cessna A185F
N185GG is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Heppner, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 24, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 23, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18502787
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A153DC (octal 50251734)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 24, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 24, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 23, 2005
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00182489
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Platt Aaron E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 456
Heppner, OR 97836-0456
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N185GG, 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 Platt Aaron E, an individual, certificate issued July 24, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 23, 2005, 30 years after the 1975 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 18502787 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N185GG 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 N185GG: Accident on August 23, 2025 at Lakeview, OR: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 28, 2023 at Friday Habor, WA: 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 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll, in gusting crosswind conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR25LA263 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna A185F · operated under 091
The pilot’s loss of directional control during landing, which resulted in a ground loop.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR23LA291 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