Grumman G-164
N478Y is a Grumman G-164, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1962. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Ferr Spray Aerial Application LLC, an LLC in Marengo, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 5, 2012 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated May 14, 1962.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- G-164 · all G-164s and related versions
- Serial number
- 123
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Jacobs R755B SERIES · 275 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1962
- Cruising speed
- 98 mph
- Transponder code
- A5E0F8 (octal 51360370)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 5, 2012
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · May 14, 1962
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00410085
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ferr Spray Aerial Application LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 20805 Anthony Rd
Marengo, IL 60152-9503
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N478Y, 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 Ferr Spray Aerial Application LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 5, 2012, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated May 14, 1962, consistent with the 1962 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 123 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N478Y 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 N478Y. 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 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