Cessna A185E
N2768J 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 an individual in Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 13, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 7, 1969.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185E · all A185Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 185-1518
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- A2C03F (octal 50540077)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 13, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 3, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 7, 1969
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00600143
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Russell Mark Alex
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1161 Ivy Dr
Fairbanks, AK 99706
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.
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N2768J, 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 Russell Mark Alex, an individual, certificate issued February 13, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 7, 1969, consistent with the 1969 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 185-1518 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2768J 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]
2 NTSB records under N2768J: Accident on June 13, 2024 at Nampa, ID: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on October 3, 1984 at Morgan City, LA: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna A185E · operated under 091
Loss of directional control during the takeoff roll.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR24LA199 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna A185E · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW85LA004 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data