Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164A
N4698 is a Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Hershey Flying Service INC, a corporation in David City, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 21, 2006 and expires on August 31, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer
- Model
- G-164A · all G-164As and related versions
- Serial number
- 1081
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 81 mph
- Transponder code
- A5BE7A (octal 51337172)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 21, 2006
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00613414
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hershey Flying Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 148
David City, NE 68632-0148
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N4698, 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 Hershey Flying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 21, 2006, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1081 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4698 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna TU206D (serial U206-1424, cancelled July 21, 1970). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
2 NTSB records under N4698: Accident on June 22, 1996 at Holyoke, CO: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 7, 1983 at Estill, SC: no injuries, destroyed. 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Grumman-Schweizer G-164A · operated under 137
the total failure of the engine main bearing. A factor was the soft terrain condition on which the forced landing was made.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW96LA272 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Grumman G-164A · operated under 137
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL83LA358 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
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