Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164B
N48559 is a Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Fountain INC, a corporation in Moscow, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 16, 1988 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 26, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer
- Model
- G-164B · all G-164Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 73B
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 80 mph
- Transponder code
- A5FE55 (octal 51377125)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 16, 1988
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · June 26, 1976
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00190355
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fountain INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 9424
Moscow, ID 83843-0118
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N48559, 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 Fountain INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 16, 1988, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 26, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 73B for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N48559 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild M-62A (serial T41-668, cancelled April 2, 1952). 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]
1 NTSB record under N48559: Accident on May 29, 1996 at Moscow, ID: no injuries, substantial damage. 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schweizer G164B · operated under 137
inflight loss of an unsecured access plug from the engine crankcase, which resulted in a loss of engine oil and a forced landing. Factors relating to the accident were: hilly terrain, and foreign material (engine oil) on the windscreen which limited forward visibility.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA96LA103 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