Cessna A185E
N70037 is a Cessna A185E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Bancroft Contracting Corporation, a corporation in South Paris, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 3, 1997 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 9, 1971.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185E · all A185Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 18501905
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1971
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- A9576F (octal 52253557)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 3, 1997
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 9, 1971
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00890607
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bancroft Contracting Corporation
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 23 Phillips Rd
South Paris, ME 04281-6405
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 N70037, 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 Bancroft Contracting Corporation, a corporation, certificate issued February 3, 1997, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 9, 1971, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18501905 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N70037 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 N70037: Accident on January 7, 2015 at Lewiston, ME: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna A185E · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to properly set the throttle prior to engine start, which resulted in a loss of control and collision with parked airplanes.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA15CA095 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