Cessna A188B
N53243 is a Cessna A188B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Fly Low Aviation LLC, an LLC in Ashley, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 22, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 17, 1974.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A188B · all A188Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18801706T
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A6BADB (octal 51535333)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 22, 2024
- Expires
- August 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- August 22, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · June 17, 1974
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00962745
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fly Low Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 9608 49Th Ave SE
Ashley, ND 58413-6666
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 N53243, 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 Fly Low Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 22, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 17, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18801706T for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N53243 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 N53243: Accident on August 20, 2008 at Camanche, IA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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 A188B · operated under 137
The pilot took off on an unsuitable airstrip which resulted in the airplane becoming prematurely airborne with inadequate airspeed after it contacted a rise in the terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI08CA260 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