Cessna A185F
N72WE is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 6 seats. It is registered to West Elk Air LLC, an LLC in Gunnison, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 20, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 29, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18503854
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550-D · 300 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A9A32C (octal 52321454)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 20, 2023
- Expires
- November 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- November 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 29, 2023
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00135751
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- West Elk Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1 Airport Rd Hngr 13
Gunnison, CO 81230-4051
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 N72WE, 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 West Elk Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 20, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 29, 2023, 44 years after the 1979 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18503854 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N72WE 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N72WE. 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