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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Cessna T188C
N2689J is a Cessna T188C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Colby, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 16, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated August 10, 1979. 2 documents are on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership), loan or lien (security agreement).
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- T188C · all T188Cs 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. This is how the Cessna T188 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
- T18803497T
- 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 TSIO-520 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1979
- Transponder code
- A2A051 (octal 50520121)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 16, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- April 16, 2024
- 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 · August 10, 1979
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00223522
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Finley Taylor J
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 445 e Plum St
Colby, KS 67701-3464
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Documents on file 2
Connections how N2689J links to the rest of the register
- Cessna T188 42 registered
- Cessna 72,684 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental TSIO-520 series 4,113 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Colby, KS 31 aircraft registered in this town
- Shalz Field · CBK
- Kansas 5,731 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna T188 8 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna T188 11 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna T188 121 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental TSIO-520 series 36 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental TSIO-520 series 412 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N2689J, 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 Finley Taylor J, an individual, certificate issued April 16, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated August 10, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial T18803497T for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2689J according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (October 27, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N2689J. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data