Cessna A185E
N185SZ is a Cessna A185E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Bredin Thomas W, a partnership in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 5, 2020 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; carriage of cargo, dated August 4, 2026.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185E · all A185Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 185-1589
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550 SERIES · 300 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- A154E7 (octal 50252347)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 5, 2020
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Carriage of cargo · August 4, 2026
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00123230
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bredin Thomas W
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- 6600 Kincaid Rd
Anchorage, AK 99502-3947 - Co-owners
- Sture Joel M
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 N185SZ, 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 Bredin Thomas W, a partnership, certificate issued November 5, 2020, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 4, 2026, 57 years after the 1969 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 185-1589 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N185SZ 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 N185SZ: Accident on May 6, 2020 at Palmer, 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 decision to attempt to " water ski" atop a remote river in a wheel-equipped airplane, resulting in a loss of control and a nose over.
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