Cessna A185E
N185WK is a Cessna A185E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1970. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Intrepid Air LLC, an LLC in Palmer, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 29, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 21, 2024. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185E · all A185Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 185-01832
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-520-D · 300 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1970
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- A1553D (octal 50252475)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 29, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 29, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 21, 2024
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 01437295
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Intrepid Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1150 S Colony Way Ste 3 Pmb 721
Palmer, AK 99645-6972
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 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N185WK, 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 Intrepid Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 29, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 21, 2024, 54 years after the 1970 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 185-01832 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N185WK was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 185 (serial 18503196, cancelled October 6, 2020). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 2, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N185WK: Accident on October 12, 2024 at Seattle, WA: 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 A185E · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during landing roll with a crosswind.
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 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