Cessna A185F
N3946Q is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hood River, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 22, 2020 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 16, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18502213
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A494DE (octal 51112336)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 22, 2020
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 16, 1973
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00400844
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Swihart Matthew
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 811 Oak St
Hood River, OR 97031-1815
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.
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The public federal record on N3946Q, 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 Swihart Matthew, an individual, certificate issued April 22, 2020, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 16, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18502213 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3946Q 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]
1 NTSB record under N3946Q: Accident on August 31, 2012 at Gerlach, NV: 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 A185F · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the takeoff roll.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR12CA381 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