Cessna A185F
N6497E 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 an individual in Rockwall, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 6, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 31, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18504050
- 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
- A889FC (octal 52104774)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 6, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 6, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 31, 1980
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00542476
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Peoples Mike
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1700 State Highway 66
Rockwall, TX 75087-3356
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 N6497E, 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 Peoples Mike, an individual, certificate issued February 6, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 31, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18504050 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6497E 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]
2 NTSB records under N6497E: Accident on September 26, 2007 at Lexington, OR: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on June 26, 2003 at Lexington, OR: no injuries, substantial damage. 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna A185F · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll which resulted in an inadvertent ground loop/swerve.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA07CA274 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 185F · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control during the landing roll. A partially deflated tire and soft terrain were factors.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA03LA122 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