Cessna A188B
N731CQ is a Cessna A188B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 1 seat. It is registered to D & K Aviation INC, a corporation in Milford, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 6, 2017 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; aerial advertising, dated May 20, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A188B · all A188Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18802794T
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A9CF03 (octal 52347403)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 6, 2017
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · Agriculture and pest control; Aerial advertisingFAA certificate purpose code 13 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 20, 1982
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00201677
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- D & K Aviation INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 58 Helen Ave
Milford, IA 51351-7371
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 N731CQ, 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 D & K Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 6, 2017, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 20, 1982, 5 years after the 1977 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18802794T for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N731CQ 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 N731CQ: Accident on July 29, 2026 at Algona, IA: 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 A188B · operated under 137
The pilot’s failure to maintain control during a turn, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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