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N61298

Cessna A185F

Valid Arizona

N61298 is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Arizona Game And Fish Department, a government body in Phoenix, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 24, 2001 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 8, 1980.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
Serial number
18504142
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1980
Cruising speed
127 mph
Transponder code
A7F9E0 (octal 51774740)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 24, 2001
Expires
October 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 24, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · October 8, 1980
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00851306

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Arizona Game And Fish Department
Type
Government
Address
318 W Deer Valley Rd
Phoenix, AZ 85027-2135

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Documents on file 0

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

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N61298, 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 Arizona Game And Fish Department, a government body, certificate issued July 24, 2001, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated October 8, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18504142 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N61298 according to the deregistered file. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N61298: Accident on September 23, 1985 at Eastsound, WA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

SEA85LA223Accident on September 23, 1985 at Eastsound, WA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna A185F · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA85LA223 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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