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Cessna 185
N9828X is a Cessna 185, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Pathfinder Aero Services LLC, an LLC in Sheridan, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 21, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; other, dated June 21, 1973.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 185 · all 185s 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 185 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
- 1850028
- 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 I0-470 SERIES · 260 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- ADB618 (octal 53333030)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 21, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- MultipleFAA airworthiness class code 6 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Standard; Restricted; OtherFAA certificate purpose code 130 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 21, 1973
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00973740
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pathfinder Aero Services LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 30 N Gould St Ste 2142
Sheridan, WY 82801-6317
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N9828X links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 185 Skywagon 228 registered
- Cessna 72,676 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-470 series 4,724 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- Pathfinder Aero Services LLC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Sheridan, WY 436 aircraft registered in this town
- Sheridan County · SHR
- Wyoming 3,235 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 185 Skywagon 31 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 185 Skywagon 69 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 185 Skywagon 338 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-470 series 28 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-470 series 114 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N9828X, 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 Pathfinder Aero Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 21, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; other; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1850028 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9828X 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N9828X. 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 November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data