Cessna A185E
N4194W is a Cessna A185E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1967. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bethel, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 21, 2003 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 11, 1991.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185E · all A185Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 1851203
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1967
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- A4F888 (octal 51174210)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 21, 2003
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 11, 1991
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00125988
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nicholson Jon S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 405
Bethel, AK 99559-0405
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 N4194W, 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 Nicholson Jon S, an individual, certificate issued November 21, 2003, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 11, 1991, 24 years after the 1967 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 1851203 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4194W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-32-300 (serial 3240282, cancelled March 27, 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 N4194W: Accident on November 23, 1988 at Meadows Of Dan, VA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Piper PA-32-300 · operated under 091
THE PILOT CONDUCTED VFR FLIGHT INTO IMC BECAUSE OF INADEQUATE INFLIGHT PLANNING/DECISION. THE AIRCRAFT EXPERIENCED INFLIGHT BRAKUP WHEN THE PILOT WAS UNABLE TO MAINTAIN FLIGHT WITHIN THE DESIGN STRESS LIMITS OF THE AIRCRAFT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO89FA012 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