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N5688J

Cessna A188A

Valid Minnesota

N5688J is a Cessna A188A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1970. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Anderson Aerial Spraying Service INC, a corporation in Canby, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 16, 2005 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated February 20, 1970.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
A188A · all A188As and related versions
Serial number
18800638
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
Seats
1
Year built
1970
Cruising speed
96 mph
Transponder code
A7481B (octal 51644033)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 16, 2005
Expires
February 29, 2028
Last FAA action
April 21, 2023
Airworthiness
Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · February 20, 1970
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00220436

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Anderson Aerial Spraying Service INC
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 11
Canby, MN 56220-0011

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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 N5688J, 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 Anderson Aerial Spraying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 16, 2005, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated February 20, 1970, consistent with the 1970 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18800638 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5688J according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N5688J. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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