Cessna A185F
N4730E is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 6 seats. It is registered to State Of Alaska, a government body in Kodiak, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 13, 1999 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 9, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18503848
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A5CE9C (octal 51347234)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 13, 1999
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 9, 1979
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00553504
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- State Of Alaska
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 351 Research Ct
Kodiak, AK 99615-7400 - Co-owners
- Department Of Fish & Game / Division Of Commercial Fisheries
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N4730E, 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 State Of Alaska, a government body, certificate issued January 13, 1999, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 9, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18503848 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4730E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 7EC (serial 7EC-72, cancelled January 29, 1960). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N4730E. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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