Cessna A185E
N70233 is a Cessna A185E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Chugiak, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 7, 2006 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 21, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185E · all A185Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 18502075
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- A95ED9 (octal 52257331)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 7, 2006
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 21, 1972
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00380677
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Morris Gray S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 670946
Chugiak, AK 99567-0946
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N70233, 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 Morris Gray S, an individual, certificate issued June 7, 2006, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 21, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18502075 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N70233 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3C-65 (serial 17209, cancelled December 8, 1953). 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]
1 NTSB record under N70233: Accident on May 26, 2004 at Anchorage, AK: minor 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 185E · operated under 091
The pilot/owner's failure to ensure that the airplane was in an airworthy condition prior to flight, which resulted in a partial loss of engine power and subsequent in-flight collision with a residence during an emergency landing after takeoff. Factors associated with the accident are a contaminated fuel pump, a flow-restricted fuel controller, a flow-restricted distributor valve, worn spark plugs, and inadequate servicing/maintenance of the airplane by other maintenance personnel.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC04LA057 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
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