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N7988Q

Cessna 401B

N7988Q is a Cessna 401B, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 8 seats. It is registered to an individual in Monroe Township, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 9, 2003 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 14, 1971.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
401B · all 401Bs and related versions
Serial number
401B0207
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
Seats
8
Year built
1971
Cruising speed
198 mph
Transponder code
AAD93C (octal 52554474)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 9, 2003
Expires
July 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · December 14, 1971
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00985310

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Cerniglia Paul
Type
Individual
Address
412 Madison Ave
Monroe Township, NJ 08831-8557

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N7988Q, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Cerniglia Paul, an individual, certificate issued May 9, 2003, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated December 14, 1971, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 401B0207 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N7988Q according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N7988Q. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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