Cessna A185F
N61368 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 Department Of Inland Fisheries And Wildlife, a government body in Augusta, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 31, 2003 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 6, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18504159
- 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
- A7FD2E (octal 51776456)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 31, 2003
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 6, 1980
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00331296
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Department Of Inland Fisheries And Wildlife
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 284 State St
Augusta, ME 04330-6915 - Co-owners
- Maine Warden Service
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N61368, 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 Department Of Inland Fisheries And Wildlife, a government body, certificate issued March 31, 2003, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 6, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18504159 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N61368 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Consolidated Vultee BT-13 (serial 6881, cancelled May 21, 1965). 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 N61368: Accident on May 12, 2026 at Avon, ME: 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: Cessna A185F · operated under PUBU
On May 12, 2026, about 1058 eastern daylight time, a Cessna A185F airplane, N61368, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Avon, Maine. The pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was owned by the state of Maine and operated as a public use aircraft. The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife, Maine Warden Service reported that the flight originated from a seaplane base on Crystal Lake, Harrison, ME, and repositioned to Rangeley Lake to load fish for the purpose of stocking Schoolhouse Pond, a local body of water. The airplane was equipped with floats and t…
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA26FA205 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