Cessna A188B
N78417 is a Cessna A188B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Lancaster, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 7, 2010 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated December 16, 1974.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A188B · all A188Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18801952T
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- AAA1FD (octal 52520775)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 7, 2010
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · December 16, 1974
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00044920
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mcelwain Russell D
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 11599 286Th Rd
Lancaster, KS 66041-9138 - Co-owners
- Mcelwain Kyle R
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 N78417, 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 Mcelwain Russell D, a co-owned, certificate issued September 7, 2010, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated December 16, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18801952T for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N78417 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 N78417: Accident on August 22, 2018 at Atchison, KS: 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 137
The partial loss of engine power for reasons that could not be determined during the postaccident examination.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN18LA350 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