Cessna 185
N185SN is a Cessna 185, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 12, 2016 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 14, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 185 · all 185s and related versions
- Serial number
- 185-01943
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- A154DC (octal 50252334)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 12, 2016
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- February 14, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 14, 1997
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00864622
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jones Kyle H
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 240088
Anchorage, AK 99524-0088
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 N185SN, 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 Jones Kyle H, an individual, certificate issued August 12, 2016, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 14, 1997, 25 years after the 1972 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 185-01943 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N185SN 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 N185SN: Accident on August 16, 2013 at Sleetmute, 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
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC13CA082 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