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Cessna 185
N34VV is a Cessna 185, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1961. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Wattum Investments LLC, an LLC in Kodiak, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 27, 2022 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 16, 1994.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Fly Denali INC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 185 · all 185s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 185 Skywagon family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 185-0036
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-470 SER · 260 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- A3BCE4 (octal 50736344)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 27, 2022
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 16, 1994
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00091848
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wattum Investments LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 8955
Kodiak, AK 99615-8955
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 1
Connections how N34VV links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 185 Skywagon 228 registered
- Cessna 72,677 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Fly Denali INC · charter operator
- Continental IO-470 series 4,724 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- Wattum Investments LLC 8 aircraft in the fleet
- Kodiak, AK 102 aircraft registered in this town
- Kodiak Airport · ADQ
- Kodiak Municipal · KDK
- Kodiak/Lilly Lake Seaplane Base · 9Z3
- Trident Basin Seaplane Base · T44
- Alaska 9,142 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 185 Skywagon 31 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 185 Skywagon 69 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 185 Skywagon 338 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-470 series 28 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-470 series 114 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N34VV.json.
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The public federal record on N34VV, 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 Wattum Investments LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 27, 2022, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 16, 1994, 33 years after the 1961 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 185-0036 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N34VV was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Galbreath Terry S VARIVIGGEN (serial 550, cancelled August 13, 1990). 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]
2 NTSB records under N34VV: Accident on September 12, 2023 at Healy, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 7, 1989 at Falcon, CO: serious injuries, destroyed. 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 185 · operated under 091
The pilot’s selection of an unsuitable landing site, resulting in a nose over.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Galbreath VARIVIGGEN · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH THE CONTROL CHARACTERISTICS OF THIS NEWLY COMPLETED HOMEBUILT. THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO USE PROPER CONTROL INPUTS AND THE LACK OF INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AIRCRAFT KIT MANUFACTURER ARE CONSIDERED AS CONTRIBUTING FACTORS TO THE ACCIDENT.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data