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N4949R

Cessna A188B

Valid Nebraska

N4949R 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 Valley Flying Service INC, a corporation in Orleans, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 15, 1987 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
A188B · all A188Bs and related versions
Serial number
18802466T
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
Seats
1
Year built
1975
Cruising speed
108 mph
Transponder code
A62297 (octal 51421227)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 15, 1987
Expires
March 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 28, 2023
Airworthiness
Restricted · Agriculture and pest control
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00120665

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Valley Flying Service INC
Type
Corporation
Address
71006 E Rd
Orleans, NE 68966-6865

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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 · 4 clear

The public federal record on N4949R, 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 Valley Flying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 15, 1987, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18802466T for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N4949R 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 N4949R. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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