Cessna 185
N9875X 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 Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 13, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 3, 1961.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 185 · all 185s and related versions
- Serial number
- 185-0075
- 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
- ADC842 (octal 53344102)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 13, 2023
- Expires
- October 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · May 3, 1961
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00173620
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cropper Ryan D
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 7020 Kitlisa Dr
Anchorage, AK 99502-1825 - Co-owners
- Santoro Patsy JR
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 N9875X, 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 Cropper Ryan D, a co-owned, certificate issued October 13, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated May 3, 1961, consistent with the 1961 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 185-0075 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9875X 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]
1 NTSB record under N9875X: Accident on March 31, 1996 at Anchorage, 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 compensation for gusty crosswind conditions. The strong, gusty crosswind was a factor.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC96LA040 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