Cessna A185F
N30WE is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1985. It has 6 seats. It is registered to West Elk Air LLC, an LLC in Gunnison, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 23, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 31, 1985.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18504432
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1985
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A31EF2 (octal 50617362)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 23, 2021
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- August 15, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 31, 1985
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00531625
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- West Elk Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 17655 County Road 730
Gunnison, CO 81230
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N30WE, 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 West Elk Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 23, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 31, 1985, consistent with the 1985 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18504432 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N30WE 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N30WE. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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