Cessna A188B
N4970Q 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 Pettis AG Aviation LLC, an LLC in Atlantic, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 10, 2011 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated August 19, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A188B · all A188Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18802704T
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A62C80 (octal 51426200)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 10, 2011
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · August 19, 1976
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00260735
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pettis AG Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 128
Atlantic, IA 50022-0128
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.
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The public federal record on N4970Q, 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 Pettis AG Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 10, 2011, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated August 19, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18802704T for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4970Q 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]
1 NTSB record under N4970Q: Accident on July 24, 1982 at Loami, IL: no injuries, destroyed. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 188B · operated under 137
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI82DA274 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data