Cessna A185E
N771X is a Cessna A185E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1967. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cordova, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 14, 1979 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 4, 1968.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185E · all A185Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 185-1336
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1967
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- AA6ECB (octal 52467313)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 14, 1979
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 4, 1968
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00633497
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ranney Dorothy Gayle
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 2349
Cordova, AK 99574-2349
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 N771X, 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 Ranney Dorothy Gayle, an individual, certificate issued July 14, 1979, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 4, 1968, consistent with the 1967 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 185-1336 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N771X 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 N771X: Accident on November 5, 2005 at Cordova, 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 185 · operated under 091
A fracture and separation of the main landing gear strut during the landing roll, which resulted in a loss of control, and subsequent nose down. Factors contributing to the accident were the manufacturer's and the FAA's insufficient standards/requirements regarding inspection procedures for the main landing gear struts.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC06TA009 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