Cessna A185F
N93769 is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Sourdough Air Service INC, a corporation in Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 2, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other, dated August 31, 1992.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18503241
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- AD02F6 (octal 53201366)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 2, 2024
- Expires
- July 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- July 2, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Other · August 31, 1992
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00230301
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sourdough Air Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 82991
Fairbanks, AK 99708-2991
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 N93769, 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 Sourdough Air Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 2, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 31, 1992, 15 years after the 1977 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 18503241 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N93769 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 N93769: Accident on May 29, 1994 at Fairbanks, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 20, 1988 at Bettles, 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 185F · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL DURING TAKEOFF.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 185 · operated under 091
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