Cessna A185F
N61861 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 Chugiak, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 2, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 11, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18504265
- 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
- A80FBA (octal 52007672)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 2, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 11, 1981
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00511456
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pulley Richard A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 671969
Chugiak, AK 99567-1969
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.
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The public federal record on N61861, 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 Pulley Richard A, an individual, certificate issued March 2, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 11, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18504265 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N61861 according to the deregistered file. [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 N61861: Accident on August 1, 1982 at Scotts Valley, CA: fatal, destroyed (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: Great Lakes 2T-1A-2 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX82FVM17 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data