Cessna A185F
N185M is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 6 seats. It is registered to G-4 Air LLC, an LLC in Birmingham, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 17, 2004 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 24, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18503532
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A15452 (octal 50252122)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 17, 2004
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 24, 1978
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00013451
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- G-4 Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 5309 Meadow Brook Rd
Birmingham, AL 35242-3316
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N185M, 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 G-4 Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 17, 2004, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 24, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18503532 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N185M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna A185F (serial 18504264, cancelled February 11, 2008). 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]
3 NTSB records under N185M: Accident on May 2, 2007 at Haines, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 17, 2000 at Yakutat, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 4, 1986 at Reno, NV: minor injuries, destroyed. 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 3
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna A185F · operated under 135
The main landing gear attachment bolts to the right ski sheared during the landing roll in deep snow, resulting in a nose down, and structural damage to the right wing and aileron.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 185 · operated under 135
The total fatigue failure of the right main landing gear leg.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 185FII · operated under 091
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
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