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N185KA

Cessna A185F

Valid Alaska

N185KA is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Fischer Greg M, a partnership in Willow, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 29, 2012 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 18, 1986.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
Serial number
18503932
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1979
Cruising speed
127 mph
Transponder code
A15421 (octal 50252041)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 29, 2012
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
January 20, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · September 18, 1986
FAA region
Alaskan
FAA record id
00563363

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Fischer Greg M
Type
Partnership
Address
PO Box 1350
Willow, AK 99688-1350
Co-owners
Imm Teresa A

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 N185KA, 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 Fischer Greg M, a partnership, certificate issued October 29, 2012, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 18, 1986, 7 years after the 1979 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18503932 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N185KA 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N185KA: Accident on July 2, 1990 at Iliamna, AK: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal). Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

ANC90FA105Accident on July 2, 1990 at Iliamna, AK: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal).

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 185 · operated under 091

THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO FOLLOW PROPER PROCEDURES AND DIRECTIVES (EXCESSIVE FLAPS); FAILURE TO OPERATE THE AIRPLANE WITHIN THE ALLOWABLE GROSS WEIGHT LIMITATIONS; IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS AND FAILURE TO MAINTAIN MINIMUM SAFE FLYING SPEED, RESULTING IN A STALL/MUSH.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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