Cessna A185F
N4759E 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 an individual in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 12, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; weather control; other, dated October 13, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18503865
- 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
- A5D745 (octal 51353505)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 12, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 31, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Weather control; Other · October 13, 1993
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00060025
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ratcliff Stephen B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4380 Cheveley Cir
Anchorage, AK 99515-2233
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 N4759E, 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 Ratcliff Stephen B, an individual, certificate issued August 12, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 13, 1993, 14 years after the 1979 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 18503865 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4759E 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 N4759E: Accident on November 14, 1988 at Kasitsna Bay, 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna A185F · operated under 135
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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