Cessna A185F
N4309R is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 6 seats. It is registered to West Atlantic Transportation CORP, a corporation in Mount Pleasant, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 20, 2006 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 26, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18502928
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A526C1 (octal 51223301)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 20, 2006
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- October 28, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 26, 1976
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00162044
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- West Atlantic Transportation CORP
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 600 N Moose Rd
Mount Pleasant, NC 28124-9540
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 N4309R, 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 West Atlantic Transportation CORP, a corporation, certificate issued September 20, 2006, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 26, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18502928 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4309R 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 N4309R: Accident on July 17, 1985 at Boise, ID: 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 185F · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA85LA169 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