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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 188B · all 188Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18801992
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 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 registration
- Certificate issued
- April 17, 2018
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · January 15, 1975
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00362961
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ballard Aviation
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 24605 Sybil Ln
Waynesville, MO 65583-3414 - Co-owners
- Ballard Charlie S / Ballard Joshua D
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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 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.
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
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during takeoff in a left quartering tailwind.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA19CA008 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