Grumman G-164A
N6553 is a Grumman G-164A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1970. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Tall Towers Aviation INC, a corporation in Page, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 7, 2008 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated January 13, 1970.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- G-164A · all G-164As and related versions
- Serial number
- 696
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1970
- Cruising speed
- 98 mph
- Transponder code
- A8A20E (octal 52121016)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 7, 2008
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · January 13, 1970
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00542696
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tall Towers Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 14269 17Th St SE
Page, ND 58064-9780
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N6553, 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 Tall Towers Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 7, 2008, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated January 13, 1970, consistent with the 1970 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 696 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6553 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mono-Aircraft Inc MONOCOUPE (serial 80, cancelled August 1, 1929). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N6553: Accident on July 19, 1988 at Knobel, AR: minor 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: Grumman G-164A · operated under 091
PROPER TOUCHDOWN POINT NOT ATTAINED, AND AIRCRAFT CONTROL NOT MAINTAINED BY THE PILOT IN COMMAND.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MKC88LA132 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
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