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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Cessna 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A188B · all A188Bs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. The Ag Wagon: a crop sprayer with a strengthened aluminium frame. This is how the Cessna A188 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 18803233T
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550-D · 300 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A9D0D6 (octal 52350326)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 8, 2020
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 11, 2007
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00041737
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Peniston Charles R
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 8554 Liv 511
Chillicothe, MO 64601-5314
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N731XG links to the rest of the register
- Cessna A188 251 registered
- Cessna 72,676 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-550-D 36 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Chillicothe, MO 19 aircraft registered in this town
- Chillicothe Municipal · CHT
- Missouri 5,819 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna A188 18 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna A188 65 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna A188 162 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-550-D 21 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-550-D 46 reports since 1995
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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]
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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 November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data