Cessna A185E
N4761Q is a Cessna A185E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1967. It has 6 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Big Lake, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 24, 2014 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 15, 1967.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185E · all A185Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 185-1226
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1967
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- A5D9EE (octal 51354756)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 24, 2014
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 15, 1967
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00450015
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Michaelson Lawrence
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 521502
Big Lake, AK 99652-1502 - Co-owners
- Michaelson Cindy P
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 N4761Q, 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 Michaelson Lawrence, a co-owned, certificate issued February 24, 2014, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 15, 1967, consistent with the 1967 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 185-1226 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4761Q 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 N4761Q: Accident on May 29, 1998 at Kotzebue, AK: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 13, 1986 at Tok, 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 185 · operated under 091
The instructor pilot's inadequate compensation for wind conditions. A factor associated with this accident was a downdraft prior to touchdown.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC98TA062 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna A185E · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC86LA056 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