Cessna 188B
N685JM is a Cessna 188B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Waynesville, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 17, 2018 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated January 15, 1975.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 188B · all 188Bs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 188 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 18801992
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A9169E (octal 52213236)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 17, 2018
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 15, 1975
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00362961
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ballard Aviation
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 24605 Sybil Ln
Waynesville, MO 65583-3414 - Co-owners
- Ballard Charlie S / Ballard Joshua D
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.
Connections how N685JM links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 188 33 registered
- Cessna 72,683 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental O-470 series 12,780 aircraft with this engine series · 230 hp
- Waynesville, MO 14 aircraft registered in this town
- Missouri 5,812 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 188 15 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 188 45 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 188 70 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental O-470 series 23 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental O-470 series 148 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N685JM, 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 Ballard Aviation, a co-owned, certificate issued April 17, 2018, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated January 15, 1975, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18801992 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N685JM 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 N685JM: Accident on October 8, 2018 at Rolla, MO: 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.
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 188 · operated under 137
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during takeoff in a left quartering tailwind.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data