Cessna A185F
N92DC is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Eagle River, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 2, 1999 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 11, 1990.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18502828
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- ACBC1F (octal 53136037)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 2, 1999
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 11, 1990
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00561510
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Adams Bob L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 770941
Eagle River, AK 99577-0941
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 N92DC, 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 Adams Bob L, an individual, certificate issued July 2, 1999, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 11, 1990, 15 years after the 1975 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 18502828 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N92DC 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 N92DC: Accident on April 24, 2026 at Aniak, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 18, 2017 at Aniak, 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 A185F · operated under 091
On April 24, 2026, about 1045 Alaska daylight time, a wheel/ski-equipped Cessna 185 airplane, N92DC, was substantially damaged in an accident at Aniak Airport (ANI), Aniak, Alaska. The pilot and one passenger were not injured. The flight was being operated as a business flight under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91. According to the pilot, the airplane was departing from a rough, uneven, snow and tundra-covered site when, just before becoming airborne, the left wheel/ski assembly separated from the main landing gear (MLG) leg. Although the assembly detached from t…
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna A185 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate preflight inspection, which failed to detect a crack in the propeller blade, which led to the separation of a section of a propeller blade due to fatigue.
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 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