Cessna A185E
N55LW is a Cessna A185E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Leeward Aero Sales CORP, a corporation in Ocala, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 15, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185E · all A185Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 1851185
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550 SERIES · 300 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- A6FE21 (octal 51577041)
Registration
- Status
- Valid, assigned to the manufacturer under its dealer certificate
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 15, 1997
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00474660
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Leeward Aero Sales CORP
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 1476
Ocala, FL 34478-1476
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 · 2 clear
The public federal record on N55LW, 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 Leeward Aero Sales CORP, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1851185 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N55LW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 206B (serial 2249, cancelled April 18, 2013). 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 N55LW: Accident on January 6, 1983 at Sula, MT: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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: Bell 206B III · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN83FA045 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