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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 11, 2026Cessna A185E
N70253 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 Palmer, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 1, 2017 and expires on March 31, 2034. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Ultima Thule Air 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
- A185E · all A185Es 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 A185 Skywagon 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
- 18502082
- 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
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- A95F1F (octal 52257437)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 1, 2017
- Expires
- March 31, 2034
- Last FAA action
- November 2, 2026
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · OtherFAA certificate purpose code 0 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00540677
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Claus Jay G
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 150 South Colony Way Ste 3
Pmb 403
Palmer, AK 99645
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 2
Connections how N70253 links to the rest of the register
- Cessna A185 Skywagon 1,373 registered
- Cessna 72,677 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Ultima Thule Air LLC · charter operator
- Continental IO-520 series 9,482 aircraft with this engine series · 285 hp
- Palmer, AK 546 aircraft registered in this town
- Butte Municipal · AK1
- Warren "Bud" Woods Palmer Municipal · PAQ
- Finger Lake Seaplane Base · 99Z
- Gooding Lake Seaplane Base · 2D3
- Alaska 9,143 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna A185 Skywagon 28 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna A185 Skywagon 448 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna A185 Skywagon 530 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
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N70253.json.
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The public federal record on N70253, 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 Claus Jay G, an individual, certificate issued March 1, 2017, expires March 31, 2034. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for other; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18502082 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N70253 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna A188B (serial 18801941T, cancelled November 5, 1975); Piper J3C-65 (serial 17230, cancelled October 10, 1947). 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 N70253. 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 November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data