Cessna A188B
N731VX 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 Goff Bayou LLC, an LLC in Shelby, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 10, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A188B · all A188Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18803200T
- 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
- A9D0B3 (octal 52350263)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 10, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00211737
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Goff Bayou LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 1093
Shelby, MS 38774-1093
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 N731VX, 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 Goff Bayou LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 10, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18803200T for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N731VX 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 N731VX: Accident on August 19, 1995 at Raeford, 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 188B · operated under 137
the loss of the abutment seal which resulted in the fatigue failure of the cylinder head.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL95LA164 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