Cessna A185F
N185JS is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 6 seats. It is registered to N185Js LLC, an LLC in Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 5, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 4, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18503095
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A15418 (octal 50252030)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 5, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- December 5, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 4, 1976
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00732660
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- N185Js LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 70906
Fairbanks, AK 99707-0906
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 N185JS, 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 N185Js LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 5, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 4, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18503095 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N185JS 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]
1 NTSB record under N185JS: Accident on September 29, 1983 at Fairbanks, 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: Cessna 185 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC83LA183 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