Cessna A188B
N731TB is a Cessna A188B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Eastern Flying Service INC, a corporation in Middletown, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 13, 2021 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated March 2, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A188B · all A188Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18803133
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A9D06D (octal 52350155)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 13, 2021
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · March 2, 1978
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00081717
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Eastern Flying Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1232 Choptank Rd
Middletown, DE 19709-9038
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 N731TB, 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 Eastern Flying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 13, 2021, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated March 2, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18803133 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N731TB 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 N731TB: Accident on April 15, 2021 at Dover, NC: 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 A188 · operated under 091
A total loss of engine power due to a shift of a crankshaft main bearing, which resulted in a lack of lubrication and subsequent overheating and failure of the engine crankshaft. Contributing to the accident was the hard touchdown during the forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA21LA188 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