Cessna A185F
N78185 is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 6 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Colusa, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 28, 2000 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 8, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18503544
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- AA97CB (octal 52513713)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 28, 2000
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 8, 1993
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00154872
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sankey Paul F
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1126 Parkhill St
Colusa, CA 95932-2154 - Co-owners
- Sankey Mary K
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 · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N78185, 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 Sankey Paul F, a co-owned, certificate issued January 28, 2000, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18503544 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N78185 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Globe GC-1B (serial 2185, cancelled June 26, 1969). 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 N78185. 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