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N4509J

Cessna T188C

Valid Idaho

N4509J is a Cessna T188C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Bancroft, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 29, 2017 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated March 8, 1988.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
T188C · all T188Cs and related versions
Serial number
T18803741T
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor TSIO-520 SER · 300 hp
Seats
1
Year built
1981
Transponder code
A575B8 (octal 51272670)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 29, 2017
Expires
September 30, 2027
Last FAA action
March 17, 2023
Airworthiness
Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · March 8, 1988
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00842754

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hill Curtis E
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 152
Bancroft, ID 83217-0152

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.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N4509J, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Hill Curtis E, an individual, certificate issued September 29, 2017, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 8, 1988, 7 years after the 1981 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial T18803741T for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N4509J according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N4509J: Accident on February 9, 1988 at Goodland, KS: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

MKC88LA048Accident on February 9, 1988 at Goodland, KS: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna T-188C · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MKC88LA048 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data