Cessna A185F
N8456Q 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 Happy Wings LLC, an LLC in Erie, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 8, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; other, dated May 31, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18503707
- 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
- AB95A5 (octal 52712645)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 8, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 8, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Other · May 31, 1995
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00312961
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Happy Wings LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 115 Mooney Pl
Erie, CO 80516-8115
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 N8456Q, 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 Happy Wings LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 8, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 31, 1995, 17 years after the 1978 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 18503707 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8456Q 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 N8456Q: Accident on February 9, 1982 at Fort Yukon, 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
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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