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Cessna 185A
N186X is a Cessna 185A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1962. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Haldeman Hangars LLC, an LLC in Vancouver, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 7, 2021 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated November 1, 2021.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 185A · all 185As and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 185 Skywagon family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 1850437
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-G1C5 · 290 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1962
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- A15903 (octal 50254403)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 7, 2021
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- December 11, 2025
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 1, 2021
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00862110
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Haldeman Hangars LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 5515 NE 72Nd Ave
Vancouver, WA 98661-3628
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
Connections how N186X links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 185 Skywagon 228 registered
- Cessna 72,688 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-540-G1C5 3 aircraft with this engine series · 290 hp
- Haldeman Hangars LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Vancouver, WA 201 aircraft registered in this town
- Fly For Fun Airport · W56
- Pearson Field · VUO
- Washington 10,571 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 185 Skywagon 31 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 185 Skywagon 69 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 185 Skywagon 338 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-540-G1C5 33 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N186X, 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 Haldeman Hangars LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 7, 2021, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 1, 2021, 59 years after the 1962 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 1850437 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N186X was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Canadair F-86E MK.6 (serial 1214, cancelled June 29, 1970). 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 N186X: Accident on September 27, 2025 at Ilwaco, 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 185A · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate preflight inspection, which resulted in a total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data