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N4220Q

Cessna A185F

Valid Minnesota

N4220Q is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Whitefish Aero Services LLC, an LLC in Crosslake, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 7, 2014 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 25, 1973. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
Serial number
18502225
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1973
Cruising speed
127 mph
Transponder code
A50574 (octal 51202564)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 7, 2014
Expires
May 31, 2027
Last FAA action
September 3, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · May 25, 1973
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00821734

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Whitefish Aero Services LLC
Type
LLC
Address
35630 W Shore Dr
Crosslake, MN 56442-2675

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Documents on file 1

2026-09-15Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

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The public federal record on N4220Q, 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 Whitefish Aero Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 7, 2014, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated May 25, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18502225 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N4220Q according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 15, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N4220Q. 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 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