Cessna A188B
N731XG 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 an individual in Chillicothe, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 8, 2020 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated December 11, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A188B · all A188Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18803233T
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550-D · 300 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A9D0D6 (octal 52350326)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 8, 2020
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · December 11, 2007
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00041737
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Peniston Charles R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 8554 Liv 511
Chillicothe, MO 64601-5314
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 N731XG, 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 Peniston Charles R, an individual, certificate issued May 8, 2020, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 11, 2007, 29 years after the 1978 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 18803233T for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N731XG 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 N731XG: Accident on April 10, 1989 at Rapelje, MT: 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 INADEQUATE COMPENSATION FOR THE WIND CONDITIONS BY THE PILOT WHICH RESULTED IN A LOSS OF DIRECTIONAL CONTROL ON LANDING AND SUBSEQUENT COLLISION WITH A DITCH.
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 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