Cessna A185F
N4845E 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 Davis, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 6, 2018 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 3, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18503887
- 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
- A5FA81 (octal 51375201)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 6, 2018
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 3, 1979
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00470315
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ellis Jeffrey
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 835 Breckenboro Rd
Davis, IL 61019-9500
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N4845E, 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 Ellis Jeffrey, an individual, certificate issued November 6, 2018, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 3, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18503887 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4845E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 7FC (serial 7FC-303, cancelled November 27, 1962). 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]
1 NTSB record under N4845E: Accident on November 18, 1984 at Glendale, AZ: 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 185F · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX85LA044 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
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