Cessna 185E
N185NV is a Cessna 185E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1965. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Landing Gear Works LLC, an LLC in Renton, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 20, 2016 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 16, 1965.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 185E · all 185Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 185-0984
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- A1547F (octal 50252177)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 20, 2016
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 16, 1965
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00281326
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Landing Gear Works LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 295 E Perimeter Rd
Renton, WA 98057-5329
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 N185NV, 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 Landing Gear Works LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 20, 2016, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 16, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 185-0984 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N185NV 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 N185NV: Accident on February 11, 2015 at Carson City, NV: 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 - E · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing with a crosswind which resulted in a ground loop.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR15CA102 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
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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