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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Cessna A188B
N4902R is a Cessna A188B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Becker Flying Service INC, a corporation in Hartington, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 23, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated October 30, 1975.
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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
- 18802420T
- 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-D · 300 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A612C6 (octal 51411306)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 23, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2025
- 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 · October 30, 1975
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00160515
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Becker Flying Service 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
- 56395 881 Rd
Hartington, NE 68739-4021
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N4902R links to the rest of the register
- Cessna A188 251 registered
- Cessna 72,684 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-520-D 95 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Becker Flying Service INC 10 aircraft in the fleet
- Hartington, NE 24 aircraft registered in this town
- Hartington Muni/Bud Becker Field · 0B4
- Nebraska 2,947 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-D 35 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-520-D 283 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N4902R, 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 Becker Flying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 23, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated October 30, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18802420T for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4902R 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 N4902R. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data