Cessna 207
N685S is a Cessna 207, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1970. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Second Wind Aviation CORP, a corporation in Friday Harbor, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 22, 2017 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 27, 1970.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Rugby Aviation, LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 207 · all 207s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 207 Skywagon 207 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 20700184
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1970
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A9175A (octal 52213532)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 22, 2017
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 27, 1970
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00951310
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Second Wind Aviation CORP
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 805 Sunday Dr
Friday Harbor, WA 98250-7300
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.
Connections how N685S links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 207 Skywagon 207 115 registered
- Cessna 72,683 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rugby Aviation, LLC · charter operator
- Continental IO-520 series 9,485 aircraft with this engine series · 285 hp
- Second Wind Aviation CORP 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Friday Harbor, WA 101 aircraft registered in this town
- Friday Harbor Airport · FHR
- Friday Harbor Seaplane Base · W33
- Washington 10,572 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 207 Skywagon 207 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 207 Skywagon 207 314 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 207 Skywagon 207 157 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-520 series 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-520 series 465 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N685S, 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 Second Wind Aviation CORP, a corporation, certificate issued May 22, 2017, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 27, 1970, consistent with the 1970 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 20700184 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N685S 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 N685S: Accident on April 8, 2014 at Shaw Island, WA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 207 · operated under 135
The pilot's loss of directional control during the landing flare with a gusting tailwind.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data