Cessna T188C
N4960J is a Cessna T188C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Ponderosa Airtankers LLC, an LLC in Safford, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 14, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated March 24, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- T188C · all T188Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- T18803791T
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor TSIO-520 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A628C3 (octal 51424303)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 14, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 14, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · March 24, 1981
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00920695
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ponderosa Airtankers LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 4500 E Aviation Way
Safford, AZ 85546-9479
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N4960J, 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 Ponderosa Airtankers LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 14, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated March 24, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial T18803791T for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4960J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28R-180 (serial 28R-30709, cancelled June 4, 1968). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N4960J. 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 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 September 30, 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