Cessna 185A
N4005Y is a Cessna 185A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1962. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Chugiak, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 7, 1989 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 10, 1989.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 185A · all 185As and related versions
- Serial number
- 185-0328
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-470 SER · 260 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1962
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- A4AFBF (octal 51127677)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 7, 1989
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 10, 1989
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00753752
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wareham Charles L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 24865 Teal Loop
Chugiak, AK 99567
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N4005Y, 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 Wareham Charles L, an individual, certificate issued September 7, 1989, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 10, 1989, 27 years after the 1962 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 185-0328 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4005Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 185 (serial 1850205, cancelled September 7, 1989). 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 N4005Y: Accident on July 31, 1989 at Tozitna River, AK: minor 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 185 · operated under 091
IMPROPER PREFLIGHT PLANNING/PREPARATION BY THE PILOT. HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS, UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS, AND TREES WERE CONTRIBUTING FACTORS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC89LA131 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