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N4740Q

Cessna A185E

Valid Montana

N4740Q 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 an individual in Whitefish, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 28, 2000 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 12, 1967.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
A185E · all A185Es and related versions
Serial number
185-1194
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
A5D25D (octal 51351135)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 28, 2000
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
May 25, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · January 12, 1967
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00993544

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Fitzpatrick D L III
Type
Individual
Address
704 13Th St E Ste 632
Whitefish, MT 59937-2993

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N4740Q, 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 Fitzpatrick D L III, an individual, certificate issued March 28, 2000, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated January 12, 1967, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 185-1194 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N4740Q according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N4740Q. 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