Cessna A185E
N4557F is a Cessna A185E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 6 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Frankfort, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 11, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 18, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185E · all A185Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 185-1061
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- A58802 (octal 51304002)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 11, 2024
- Expires
- December 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- December 11, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 18, 2001
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00392984
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kincaid Jonathan A
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 129 Laffin Rd
Frankfort, ME 04438-3435 - Co-owners
- Kincaid Linda C
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 N4557F, 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 Kincaid Jonathan A, a co-owned, certificate issued December 11, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 18, 2001, 35 years after the 1966 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 185-1061 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4557F 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]
2 NTSB records under N4557F: Accident on July 29, 2013 at Kotzebue, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on April 18, 2005 at Wasilla, AK: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna A185E · operated under 091
The pilot's lack of situational awareness and failure to maintain adequate clearance from terrain during takeoff. Factors contributing to the accident was the check airmen’s inadequate supervision.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC13CA069 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna A185E · operated under 091
The flight instructor's failure to provide adequate supervision of the second pilot during the landing roll, which resulted in a loss of control and an intentional ground-loop by the instructor. A factor in the accident was the dual student's ( a certificated private pilot) loss of directional control during the landing roll.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC05CA060 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