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A Cessna 185 Skywagon, the same model family as N4037Y
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N4037Y

Cessna 185

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesDelaware

N4037Y is a Cessna 185, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Vfr LTD, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 6, 2019 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
185 · all 185s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The 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
1850237
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 I0-470 SERIES · 260 hp
Seats
6
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
125 mph
Transponder code
A4BB2A (octal 51135452)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
June 6, 2019
Expires
June 30, 2029
Last FAA action
October 25, 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
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00251104

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Vfr LTD
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
108 W 13Th St Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19801-1145

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N4037Y links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
Airworthiness

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Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N4037Y, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Vfr LTD, a corporation, certificate issued June 6, 2019, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1850237 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N4037Y according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N4037Y. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data