Cessna 185E
N6968Z is a Cessna 185E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1965. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kingwood, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 22, 2007 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 6, 1965.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 185E · all 185Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 185-0968
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor I0-470 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- A94488 (octal 52242210)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 22, 2007
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 6, 1965
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00240547
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Meili Charles E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2215 Pleasant Creek Dr
Kingwood, TX 77345-1669
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N6968Z, 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 Meili Charles E, an individual, certificate issued January 22, 2007, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 6, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 185-0968 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6968Z was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-25-235 (serial 25-2715, cancelled October 26, 1971). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N6968Z. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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