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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 4, 2026Cessna A188B
N4890Q is a Cessna A188B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 1 seat. It is registered to New Frontier Aviation LLC, an LLC in Fort Benton, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 16, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated April 25, 1977.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A188B · all A188Bs 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. The Ag Wagon: a crop sprayer with a strengthened aluminium frame. This is how the Cessna A188 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
- 18802626T
- 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 IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A60C6F (octal 51406157)
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 16, 2026
- Expires
- May 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- May 16, 2026
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · To show compliance with regulationsFAA certificate purpose code 0 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 25, 1977
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00620455
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- New Frontier Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 9
Fort Benton, MT 59442-0009
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N4890Q links to the rest of the register
- Cessna A188 251 registered
- Cessna 72,685 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-520 series 9,485 aircraft with this engine series · 285 hp
- New Frontier Aviation LLC 16 aircraft in the fleet
- Fort Benton, MT 29 aircraft registered in this town
- Fort Benton Airport · 79S
- Montana 6,044 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna A188 18 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna A188 65 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna A188 162 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-520 series 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-520 series 465 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N4890Q, 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 New Frontier Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 16, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated April 25, 1977, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18802626T for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4890Q 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 N4890Q. 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 November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data