Cessna 185
N9855X is a Cessna 185, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1961. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in King Salmon, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 23, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; other, dated August 31, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 185 · all 185s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1850055
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- ADC0D4 (octal 53340324)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 23, 2021
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Other · August 31, 1995
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00353630
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mcgee Jacob Quinton
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 13 Alaska Peninsula Highway
PO Box 31
King Salmon, AK 99613
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 N9855X, 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 Mcgee Jacob Quinton, an individual, certificate issued January 23, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 31, 1995, 34 years after the 1961 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 1850055 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9855X 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]
3 NTSB records under N9855X: Accident on August 4, 2023 at Iliamna, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on June 9, 1998 at Chickaloon, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 23, 1997 at Talkeetna, 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 3
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 185 · operated under 091
The passenger’s inadvertent application of brakes during landing that resulted in a nose over.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC23LA059 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 185 · operated under 135
The pilot's inadvertent activation of the fuel boost pump selector switch during final approach, which resulted in an overly rich mixture and subsequent loss of engine power.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC98LA067 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 185 · operated under 135
The pilots failure to maintain terrain clearance during the downslope, downwind, high altitude, takeoff. Factors were the snow and lighting conditions, and the tailwind takeoff.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC97LA110 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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