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N4185P

Cessna A185E

Valid Montana

N4185P is a Cessna A185E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1970. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Flying Woody LLC, an LLC in Helena, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 6, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 18, 2025.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
A185E · all A185Es and related versions
Serial number
185-01651
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-520-D · 300 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1970
Cruising speed
125 mph
Transponder code
A4F4ED (octal 51172355)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 6, 2025
Expires
October 31, 2032
Last FAA action
October 6, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · December 18, 2025
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
01523688

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Flying Woody LLC
Type
LLC
Address
415 N Benton Ave
Helena, MT 59601-5041

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

1999-03-26Piper PA-23-160 · Valid registration

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N4185P, 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 Flying Woody LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 6, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 18, 2025, 55 years after the 1970 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 185-01651 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N4185P was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-23-160 (serial 23-1673, cancelled March 26, 1999). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N4185P: Accident on December 19, 1998 at Anchorage, AK: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

ANC99LA018Accident on December 19, 1998 at Anchorage, AK: minor injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 23-1673

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-23-160 · operated under 091

A loss of engine power due to fuel contamination. A factor associated with the accident was the pilot's failure to maintain directional control.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC99LA018 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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