Cessna 188
N5523S 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 Dj Flight Service LLC, an LLC in Little Falls, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 2, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated June 10, 1966.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 188 · all 188s and related versions
- Serial number
- 188-0023
- 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
- A709AB (octal 51604653)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 2, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 2, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · June 10, 1966
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00983465
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dj Flight Service LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 13129 Airport Rd
Little Falls, MN 56345-5777
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 N5523S, 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 Dj Flight Service LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 2, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated June 10, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 188-0023 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5523S 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 N5523S: Accident on August 2, 2018 at Watkins, MN: 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 188 · operated under 137
A partial loss of engine power for reasons that could not be determined because a postaccident examination revealed no evidence of preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN18LA311 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