Cessna A185F
N8045Q is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Echo Bay Corporation, a corporation in Bow, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 11, 1997 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 28, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18503632
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- AAF3CF (octal 52571717)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 11, 1997
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- May 31, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 28, 1978
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00220572
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Echo Bay Corporation
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 9934 Samish Island Rd
Bow, WA 98232-9402
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 N8045Q, 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 Echo Bay Corporation, a corporation, certificate issued July 11, 1997, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 28, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18503632 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8045Q 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 N8045Q: Accident on May 18, 2007 at Renton, WA: no 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 A185F · operated under 091
The pilot's loss of aircraft control during a landing attempt, which resulted in an inadvertent ground loop.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA07CA127 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