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Cessna A185E: fleet, age & accident history
Aggregate figures from the FAA Aircraft Registry (current US civil registrations) and the NTSB Aviation Accident Database. No individual owners are named on this page.
Accident-rate context
NTSB-recorded events (loaded window) involving aircraft currently registered as this model, per 1,000 currently registered. Not a safety ranking; older events and deregistered aircraft are not counted.
Where Cessna A185E aircraft are registered
Count of currently registered Cessna A185E aircraft by registration state (FAA). Aggregate counts only.
| State | Registered |
|---|---|
| Alaska | 94 |
| Washington | 19 |
| Montana | 14 |
| Minnesota | 11 |
| Arizona | 11 |
| Texas | 10 |
Cessna A185E airframes with a public accident record
These Cessna A185E aircraft are currently registered and carry at least one NTSB accident or incident record. Marked entries have a record filed under a different tail number — found by manufacturer serial number, which a search on the current N-number alone cannot surface.
- N185K 1971 · 3 records prior tail number
- N185RW 1972 · 2 records prior tail number
- N185SZ 1969 · 2 records prior tail number
- N129PR 1968 · 1 record prior tail number
- N185WF 1972 · 1 record prior tail number
- N4517F · 1 record prior tail number
- N574MT 1967 · 1 record prior tail number
- N70713 1971 · 1 record prior tail number
- N766M · 1 record prior tail number
- N1613M 1970 · 4 records
- N1694M · 3 records
- N19EC 1967 · 3 records
- N7711L 1969 · 3 records
- N185LC · 2 records
- N2231T 1968 · 2 records
- N2262T 1968 · 2 records
- N2303Y 1971 · 2 records
- N2768J 1969 · 2 records
- N3347L 1967 · 2 records
- N4535F 1966 · 2 records
- N4557F 1966 · 2 records
- N4730Q 1966 · 2 records
- N4755Q 1967 · 2 records
- N4761Q 1967 · 2 records
- N70083 1971 · 2 records
- N85CF 1971 · 2 records
- N1972U 1970 · 1 record
- N2764J 1969 · 1 record
- N9030R 1967 · 1 record
- N113LC 1969 · 1 record
- N124LR 1970 · 1 record
- N1644M 1970 · 1 record
- N1669M 1971 · 1 record
- N1692M 1971 · 1 record
Other Cessna models
- 172M · 3,581 registered
- 172N · 3,139 registered
- 182P · 2,100 registered
- 172S · 1,915 registered
- 172 · 1,805 registered
- 152 · 1,635 registered
- 140 · 1,599 registered
- 182Q · 1,564 registered
Was this Cessna A185E ever wrecked under a different tail number?
The free registries search by current tail number — so a Cessna A185E that was wrecked, rebuilt, and re-registered under a new N-number shows clean on every one of them. The accident stays filed under the tail the airframe wore at the time. The $79 report cross-matches by manufacturer serial number to surface that hidden history — plus every registrant on record, registration expiry, recent FAA filings (the lien signal), and the full NTSB narrative for each event. Delivered instantly, no account, no ads.
source: FAA Aircraft Registry source: NTSB FAA data as of 2026-08-17 computed 2026-08-24