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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026Ag-Cat Corporation G-164B
N80083 is an Ag-Cat Corporation G-164B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Macys Flying Service INC, a corporation in Tulelake, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 20, 2009 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 11, 1998.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Ag-Cat Corporation
- Model
- G-164B · all G-164Bs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. The Ag Cat biplane: steel tube, aluminium wings, fabric. This is how the Ag-Cat Corporation G-164 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
- 837B
- 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 · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- AAE569 (octal 52562551)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 20, 2009
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 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 · June 11, 1998
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00757261
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Macys Flying Service INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 277
Tulelake, CA 96134-0277
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N80083 links to the rest of the register
- Ag-Cat Corporation G-164 5 registered
- Ag-Cat Corporation 5 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney R1340 series 1,229 aircraft with this engine series · 600 hp
- Macys Flying Service INC 7 aircraft in the fleet
- Tulelake, CA 10 aircraft registered in this town
- Tulelake Municipal · O81
- California 27,658 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Ag-Cat Corporation G-164 25 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Ag-Cat Corporation G-164 147 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R1340 series 58 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N80083.json.
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The public federal record on N80083, 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 Macys Flying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 20, 2009, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 11, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 837B for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N80083 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]
2 NTSB records under N80083: Accident on June 5, 2017 at Tulelake, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 26, 2001 at Wallace, NE: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Ag-Cat Corporation G 164 · operated under 137
The pilot’s improper decision to perform a low altitude fly-by over ground equipment, which resulted in the airplane striking the equipment.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Ag-Cat Corporation G-164B · operated under 137
The inadequate preflight planning by the pilot, the pilot initiating the flight with an inadequate fuel supply, and the unsuitable terrain encountered during the forced landing. Factors were the fuel exhaustion, the low altitude and the soft field.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data