Cessna A185F
N4953E 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 Inland Fisheries And Wildlife, a government body in Augusta, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 24, 2018 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 10, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18503919
- 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
- A62571 (octal 51422561)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 24, 2018
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 10, 1979
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00300685
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Inland Fisheries And Wildlife
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 284 State St
Augusta, ME 04330-6915
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N4953E, 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 Inland Fisheries And Wildlife, a government body, certificate issued July 24, 2018, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 10, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18503919 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4953E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Ryan NAVION A (serial NAV-4-1665, cancelled March 29, 1974). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N4953E. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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