Cessna A185F
N9452N is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Alaska Department Of Public Safety, a government body in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 12, 1982 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 10, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18504359
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1981
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- AD2266 (octal 53221146)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 12, 1982
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 10, 1981
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00160131
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Alaska Department Of Public Safety
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 4827 Aircraft Dr
Anchorage, AK 99502-1071 - Co-owners
- Aircraft Section
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N9452N, 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 Alaska Department Of Public Safety, a government body, certificate issued May 12, 1982, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 10, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18504359 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9452N was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28R-200 (serial 28R-35167, cancelled April 15, 1970). 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 N9452N: Accident on January 19, 2005 at Eek, 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 185 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate evaluation of weather conditions, which resulted in an on ground encounter with terrain during the landing roll. Factors associated with the accident were a tailwind, and snow-covered, icy terrain conditions.
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
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