Cessna A185F
N401WC is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Nakochna River Resort LLC, an LLC in Willow, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 9, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 7, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18502235
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A4B24F (octal 51131117)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 9, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 7, 2003
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00013629
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nakochna River Resort LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 1021
Willow, AK 99688-1021
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 N401WC, 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 Nakochna River Resort LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 9, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18502235 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N401WC 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 N401WC: Accident on July 16, 2017 at Wasilla, AK: 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 A185 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to manage fuel quantity in flight, which resulted in a total loss of engine power due to fuel starvation. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s failure to follow manufacturer guidance for restoring engine power after emptying a fuel tank.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC17LA037 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