Cessna A185F
N185SQ is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Snider Helicopter Service LLC, an LLC in Turner, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 10, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 18, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18503306
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A154DE (octal 50252336)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 10, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- August 29, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 18, 1997
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00630900
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Snider Helicopter Service LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2040 Homestead Rd
Turner, MT 59542-9628
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N185SQ, 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 Snider Helicopter Service LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 10, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 18, 1997, 20 years after the 1977 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 18503306 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N185SQ was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: M-Squared SPRINT 1000 (serial 0554, cancelled July 14, 2017). 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]
1 NTSB record under N185SQ: Accident on September 5, 2009 at Madeira Beach, FL: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal). 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: M-Squared SPRINT 1000 · operated under 091
A loss of torque to the gearbox engine-side coupling flange bolts, which resulted in separation of the gearbox and propeller from the engine and the subsequent severing of the airplane's tail structure.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA09LA502 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