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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Cessna A185F
N85DT 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 an individual in Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 21, 2021 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 19, 2020.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Coyote Air LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna A185 Skywagon family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 18503474
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-520-D · 300 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- ABA55C (octal 52722534)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 21, 2021
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 19, 2020
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01199736
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Polashenski Christopher
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 765 Goldstreak Rd
Fairbanks, AK 99712-2083
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
Connections how N85DT links to the rest of the register
- Cessna A185 Skywagon 1,372 registered
- Cessna 72,684 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Coyote Air LLC · charter operator
- Continental IO-520-D 95 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Fairbanks, AK 843 aircraft registered in this town
- Fairbanks International · FAI
- Gold King Creek Airport · AK7
- Chena River Seaplane Base · 2Z5
- Alaska 9,146 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna A185 Skywagon 28 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna A185 Skywagon 448 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna A185 Skywagon 530 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-520-D 35 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-520-D 283 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N85DT, 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 Polashenski Christopher, an individual, certificate issued August 21, 2021, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 19, 2020, 42 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 18503474 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N85DT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Tarcza Donald E CHALLENGER II (serial CH20892CW0877, cancelled March 25, 2013). 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 N85DT: Accident on June 6, 2021 at Chandalar Lake, 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 A185F · operated under 091
The pilot’s over application of the brakes, which resulted in a nose over.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data