Cessna 188
N5517S is a Cessna 188, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Union City, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 28, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated May 26, 1966.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 188 · all 188s and related versions
- Serial number
- 188-0017
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 96 mph
- Transponder code
- A70680 (octal 51603200)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 28, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · May 26, 1966
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00303445
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Russell Charles B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 426
Union City, TN 38281-0426
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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 · 5 clear
The public federal record on N5517S, 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 Russell Charles B, an individual, certificate issued December 28, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated May 26, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 188-0017 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5517S 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N5517S. 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 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