Cessna A185F
N8548Q 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 Klein Flying Service INC, a corporation in Lawrenceville, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 5, 2014 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 14, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18503730
- 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
- ABB9B3 (octal 52734663)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 5, 2014
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 14, 1978
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00472721
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Klein Flying Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 20014 State Route 33 E
Lawrenceville, IL 62439-4595
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 N8548Q, 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 Klein Flying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 5, 2014, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 14, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18503730 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8548Q 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 N8548Q: Accident on September 26, 2005 at Tracy, CA: 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
loss of engine power for undetermined reasons.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX05LA317 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