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N53013

Cessna A185F

N53013 is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Reedsville, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 19, 1999 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated January 4, 1974.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
Serial number
18502317
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1973
Cruising speed
127 mph
Transponder code
A6B304 (octal 51531404)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 19, 1999
Expires
October 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 24, 2023
Airworthiness
Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · January 4, 1974
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00332675

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Metzler Alan J
Type
Individual
Address
685 Skywagon Dr
Reedsville, PA 17084-8850

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1948-05-14Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N53013, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Metzler Alan J, an individual, certificate issued June 19, 1999, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated January 4, 1974, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18502317 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N53013 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR (serial 1944, cancelled May 14, 1948). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N53013. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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