Cessna 185
N8209U is a Cessna 185, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1961. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Wrangell Mountain Air INC, a corporation in Palmer, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 3, 1997 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 21, 1989.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 185 · all 185s and related versions
- Serial number
- 185-0213
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-470 SER · 260 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- AB3481 (octal 52632201)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 3, 1997
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- March 11, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 21, 1989
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00774312
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wrangell Mountain Air INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 1888
Palmer, AK 99645-1888
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N8209U, 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 Wrangell Mountain Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 3, 1997, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 21, 1989, 28 years after the 1961 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 185-0213 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8209U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Douglas DC-8-33 (serial 45260, cancelled date not given). 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]
1 NTSB record under N8209U: Accident on August 16, 2009 at Mccarthy, AK: 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 185 · operated under 135
The separation of the right main landing gear wheel from the airplane during landing for undetermined reasons, which resulted in an inability to control the airplane.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC09LA083 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