Cessna A185F
N520VA is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pleasant Grove, California. The FAA lists the registration as "sale reported". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 17, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18503352
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A68ACA (octal 51505312)
Registration
- Status
- Sale reported
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- April 18, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 17, 1977
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00732285
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sale Reported
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1510 W Catlett Rd
Pleasant Grove, CA 95668-9718
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.
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N520VA, 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.
Registration status is "Sale reported". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 17, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18503352 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N520VA 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 N520VA: Accident on May 28, 1990 at Northway, 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 185 · operated under 091
THE PILOT LOST CONTROL OF THE AIRPLANE DURING THE POST-LANDING TAXI.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC90LA077 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