Cessna A188B
N21861 is a Cessna A188B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Round Engine Aero, a corporation in Nashville, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 5, 2018 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated December 11, 1972.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A188B · all A188Bs 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
- 18801082
- 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
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A1DA7E (octal 50355176)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 5, 2018
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 11, 1972
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00401612
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Round Engine Aero
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 9850 Curtis Rd
Nashville, MI 49073-9406
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N21861 links to the rest of the register
- Cessna A188 251 registered
- Cessna 72,683 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
- Round Engine Aero 25 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · expired
- Nashville, MI 43 aircraft registered in this town
- Michigan 7,223 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
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The public federal record on N21861, 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 Round Engine Aero, a corporation, certificate issued February 5, 2018, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18801082 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N21861 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 N21861: Accident on September 2, 1993 at Three Forks, MT: serious injuries, destroyed. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna A188B · operated under 137
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED RESULTING IN A STALL/MUSH. THE HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE AND THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO COMPLETELY JETTISON HIS LOAD WERE FACTORS.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data