Cessna A188
N8157V is a Cessna A188, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Ready Aim Flyer LLC, an LLC in New Castle, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 1, 2018 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated July 17, 1968.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A188 · all A188s and related versions
- Serial number
- 188-0407
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 96 mph
- Transponder code
- AB1F50 (octal 52617520)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 1, 2018
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · July 17, 1968
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00700112
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ready Aim Flyer LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 257 Old Churchmans Rd
New Castle, DE 19720-1529
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 N8157V, 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 Ready Aim Flyer LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 1, 2018, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated July 17, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 188-0407 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8157V 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 N8157V: Accident on June 27, 2014 at Arlington, TX: 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 091
The total loss of engine power due to a loose oil filter adapter, which resulted in oil starvation. Contributing to the accident was maintenance personnel’s failure to comply with a Federal Aviation Administration airworthiness directive.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN14LA331 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