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N22069

Cessna A185F

Valid Alaska

N22069 is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1982. It has 6 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Wasilla, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 12, 1993 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 12, 1983. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
Serial number
18504368
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1982
Cruising speed
127 mph
Transponder code
A1E44D (octal 50362115)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 12, 1993
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · January 12, 1983
FAA region
Alaskan
FAA record id
00791722

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Frank Merle R Trustee
Type
Co-owned
Address
1780 Lake Lucille Dr
Wasilla, AK 99654-7927
Co-owners
Frank Dorothy A Trustee

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

2026-09-30Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Earlier use of this number 1

1964-09-09Luscombe 8A · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N22069, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Frank Merle R Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued March 12, 1993, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated January 12, 1983, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18504368 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N22069 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Luscombe 8A (serial 895, cancelled September 9, 1964). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 30, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N22069. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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