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N53319

Cessna A188B

Valid Georgia

N53319 is a Cessna A188B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Souther Field Aviation INC, a corporation in Americus, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 27, 1998 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated July 22, 1974.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
A188B · all A188Bs and related versions
Serial number
18801758T
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
108 mph
Transponder code
A6BE2F (octal 51537057)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 27, 1998
Expires
April 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · July 22, 1974
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00392785

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Souther Field Aviation INC
Type
Corporation
Address
223 Frankie Williams Rd
Americus, GA 31709-8127

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

1955-10-11Consolidated/Nocco C VULTEE BT-13 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N53319, 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 Souther Field Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 27, 1998, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

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

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18801758T for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N53319 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Consolidated/Nocco C VULTEE BT-13 (serial 8046, cancelled October 11, 1955). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N53319: Accident on November 20, 1996 at Ocilla, GA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

MIA97LA027Accident on November 20, 1996 at Ocilla, GA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna A188B · operated under 137

the pilot's inadequate fuel consumption calculations and failure to ensure the aircraft contained an adequate amount of fuel to complete the flight, which resulted in loss of engine power because of fuel exhaustion. Uneven terrain in the emergency landing area was a related factor.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA97LA027 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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