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N61742

Cessna A185F

Valid Minnesota

N61742 is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 25, 2011 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 9, 1981.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
Serial number
18504246
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1981
Cruising speed
127 mph
Transponder code
A80BBE (octal 52005676)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 25, 2011
Expires
August 31, 2027
Last FAA action
August 7, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · April 9, 1981
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00001436

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Fox James R
Type
Individual
Address
465 Kenny Rd
Saint Paul, MN 55130-4413

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 2

1975-10-08Cessna 172M · exported to Canada · Valid registration
1956-01-04Boeing A75N1 · exported to Spain · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N61742, 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 Fox James R, an individual, certificate issued August 25, 2011, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated April 9, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18504246 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N61742 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172M (serial 17264767, cancelled October 8, 1975); Boeing A75N1 (serial 75-4672, cancelled January 4, 1956). 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 N61742. 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