Cessna 185
N9868X 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 co-owned owners in Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 18, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 2, 1961. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 185 · all 185s and related versions
- Serial number
- 185-0068
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor I0-470 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 125 mph
- Transponder code
- ADC4F4 (octal 53342364)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 18, 2017
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 2, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · May 2, 1961
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00073630
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Baysinger Harold
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 703 Darrell Dr
Fairbanks, AK 99709-6751 - Co-owners
- Baysinger Kristin
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 1
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The public federal record on N9868X, 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 Baysinger Harold, a co-owned, certificate issued August 18, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated May 2, 1961, consistent with the 1961 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 185-0068 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9868X according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 2, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N9868X. 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