Cessna A185E
N85CF is a Cessna A185E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Sutton Aircraft Salvage LLC, an LLC in Palmer, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 28, 2017 and expires on February 28, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185E · all A185Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 18501904
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1971
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- ABA537 (octal 52722467)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 28, 2017
- Expires
- February 28, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00242841
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sutton Aircraft Salvage LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 13500 E Jensen Ave
Palmer, AK 99645-9430
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 N85CF, 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 Sutton Aircraft Salvage LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 28, 2017, expires February 28, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18501904 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N85CF 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]
2 NTSB records under N85CF: Accident on July 19, 2016 at Illiamna, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on June 20, 1998 at Anchorage, 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna A185 · operated under 091
The overstress fracture of the left main landing (MLG) gear axle attachment bolts and the subsequent separation of the left MLG wheel, which resulted in the pilot’s inability to control the airplane.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC16LA046 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 185E · operated under 091
The rotation/slippage of the right main tire on the wheel rim, resulting in shearing of the tire tube valve stem, and subsequent tire deflation. Factors in the accident were oversize, tundra tires operated on a dry, asphalt runway surface.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC98LA082 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