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N4898Q

Cessna A188B

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesMontana

N4898Q 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 Taylor Aviation INC, a corporation in Fort Benton, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 6, 2005 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated May 21, 1976.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
A188B · all A188Bs and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The 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
18802634T
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
A60D87 (octal 51406607)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
December 6, 2005
Expires
January 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 7, 2023
Airworthiness
RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 21, 1976
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00220485

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Taylor Aviation INC
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
PO Box 159
Fort Benton, MT 59442-0159

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N4898Q links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
  • Taylor Aviation INC 12 aircraft in the fleet
  • Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to March 17, 2027
Place
Airworthiness

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Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N4898Q, 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 Taylor Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 6, 2005, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated May 21, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18802634T for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N4898Q 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N4898Q. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

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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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data