Aviat Aircraft Inc A-1B
N188DS is an Aviat Aircraft Inc A-1B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Copper River Airmotive LLC, an LLC in Copper Center, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 23, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 9, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aviat Aircraft Inc
- Model
- A-1B · all A-1Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2326
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A15EC0 (octal 50257300)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 23, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 23, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 9, 2005
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00211549
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Copper River Airmotive LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- Hc 60 Box 251B
Copper Center, AK 99573-9704
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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 N188DS, 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 Copper River Airmotive LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 23, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 9, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2326 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N188DS 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 N188DS: Accident on January 4, 2022 at Matagorda Island, 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: Aviat Aircraft INC A-1B · operated under 091
The pilot’s loss of directional control during an intentional off-airport landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN22LA097 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data