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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 2, 2026Cessna A188A
N1556M is a Cessna A188A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 1 seat. It is registered to C-Fleet LLC, an LLC in Missoula, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 28, 2022 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; other, dated May 23, 2001.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A188A · all A188As 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. The Ag Wagon: a crop sprayer with a strengthened aluminium frame. This is how the Cessna A188 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
- 18800656
- 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 IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1971
- Cruising speed
- 96 mph
- Transponder code
- A0DFF8 (octal 50157770)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 28, 2022
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 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 · May 23, 2001
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00810900
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- C-Fleet 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
- PO Box 7967
Missoula, MT 59807-7967
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N1556M links to the rest of the register
- Cessna A188 251 registered
- Cessna 72,685 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-520 series 9,485 aircraft with this engine series · 285 hp
- C-Fleet LLC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Missoula, MT 760 aircraft registered in this town
- Missoula Montana Airport · MSO
- Montana 6,049 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna A188 18 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna A188 65 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna A188 162 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-520 series 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-520 series 465 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N1556M.json.
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The public federal record on N1556M, 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 C-Fleet LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 28, 2022, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 23, 2001, 30 years after the 1971 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 18800656 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1556M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Consolidated Vultee PBY-5A (serial 48275, cancelled May 11, 1955). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N1556M: Accident on July 28, 1996 at Decatur, TX: 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 188A · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to maintain directional control. A factor was the prevailing crosswind.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data