Cessna A185F
N3217U is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Welkin Aero INC, a corporation in Garden Plain, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 2, 2022 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 5, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18502738
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-520-D · 300 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A37567 (octal 50672547)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 2, 2022
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 5, 2022
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00095689
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Welkin Aero INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1822 Cub Lane Cir
Garden Plain, KS 67050-9312
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3217U, 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 Welkin Aero INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 2, 2022, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 5, 2022, 47 years after the 1975 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 18502738 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3217U was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech 1900D (serial UE212, cancelled March 18, 1998); Cessna 182F (serial 18254617, cancelled April 17, 1964). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N3217U. 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