Cessna A185F
N2W is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Seldom Seen Aviation Northwest INC, a corporation in Stevensville, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 12, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 29, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 185-02982
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A18F45 (octal 50307505)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 12, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 29, 1981
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00521894
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Seldom Seen Aviation Northwest INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 310 10Th St
Stevensville, MT 59870-2916
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N2W, 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 Seldom Seen Aviation Northwest INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 12, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 185-02982 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2W was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Dream Aircraft Inc X1 (serial 1, cancelled June 17, 1953); Northrop Aircraft Corp 2 (serial 1, cancelled July 8, 1930). 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 N2W: Accident on January 12, 2018 at Lowman, ID: 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 A185 · operated under 091
The pilot’s selection of unsuitable terrain for takeoff, which resulted in a loss of directional control.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA18CA106 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
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