Cessna A185F
N4874Q is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Sutton Aircraft Salvage LLC, an LLC in Palmer, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 18, 2022 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 9, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18503567
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A6058D (octal 51402615)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 18, 2022
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 9, 1978
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00890405
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sutton Aircraft Salvage LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 13500 E Jensen Ave
Palmer, AK 99645-9430
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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 N4874Q, 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 Sutton Aircraft Salvage LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 18, 2022, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 9, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18503567 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4874Q 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 N4874Q: Accident on July 1, 1992 at Ekuk, 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 185F · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S SELECTION OF UNSUITABLE TERRAIN FOR LANDING. A FACTOR WAS THE HIDDEN OBSTRUCTION ON THE SURFACE OF THE LANDING AREA.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC92LA099 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