Cessna 188
N37G is a Cessna 188, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Willamette Valley Soaring Club, a corporation in Beaverton, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 14, 2011 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 27, 1966.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 188 · all 188s 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 188 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
- 188-0166
- 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 O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 96 mph
- Transponder code
- A43208 (octal 51031010)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 14, 2011
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 27, 1966
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00354040
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Willamette Valley Soaring Club (flying club: its whole fleet and safety record)
- 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
- 20449 SW Tualatin Valley Hwy
Pmb 133
Beaverton, OR 97003-1700
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N37G links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 188 33 registered
- Cessna 72,688 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental O-470 series 12,779 aircraft with this engine series · 230 hp
- Willamette Valley Soaring Club 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Beaverton, OR 114 aircraft registered in this town
- Oregon 7,013 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 188 15 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 188 45 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 188 70 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental O-470 series 23 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental O-470 series 148 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bracket, cracked · 1996-09-18
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The public federal record on N37G, 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 Willamette Valley Soaring Club, a corporation, certificate issued May 14, 2011, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 27, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 188-0166 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N37G 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N37G. 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 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data