Cessna A185F
N9494N 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 Maine Department Of Inland Fisheries And Wildlife, a government body in Augusta, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 4, 2025 and expires on April 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 7, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A185F · all A185Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18504365
- 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
- AD3188 (octal 53230610)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 4, 2025
- Expires
- April 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- April 4, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 7, 1982
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00370031
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Maine Department Of Inland Fisheries And Wildlife
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 353 Water St
Augusta, ME 04330-6113 - Co-owners
- Bureau Of Maine Warden Service
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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
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The public federal record on N9494N, 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 Maine Department Of Inland Fisheries And Wildlife, a government body, certificate issued April 4, 2025, expires April 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 7, 1982, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18504365 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9494N was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28R-200 (serial 28R-35215, cancelled July 18, 1969). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N9494N. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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