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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Schweizer Aircraft Corp G-164B
N8486K is a Schweizer Aircraft Corp G-164B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1982. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Basin Aviation, a corporation in Rio Oso, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 1, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated November 22, 1982.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer Aircraft Corp
- 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 Schweizer Aircraft Corp 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
- 709B
- 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
- 1982
- Transponder code
- ABA0C5 (octal 52720305)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 1, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 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 · November 22, 1982
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00512002
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Basin Aviation
- 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 154
Rio Oso, CA 95674-0154
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N8486K links to the rest of the register
- Schweizer Aircraft Corp G-164 64 registered
- Schweizer Aircraft Corp 64 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
- Type certificate 1A16 · held by Allied AG Cat Productions
- Basin Aviation 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Rio Oso, CA 13 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,686 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Schweizer Aircraft Corp G-164 20 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Schweizer Aircraft Corp G-164 2 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Schweizer Aircraft Corp G-164 49 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R1340 series 58 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N8486K, 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 Basin Aviation, a corporation, certificate issued April 1, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated November 22, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 709B for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8486K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stinson 108-2 (serial 108-1486, cancelled October 26, 1953). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N8486K: Accident on June 4, 2020 at Lincoln, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Grumman G164 · operated under 137
The pilot’s loss of directional control on takeoff for undetermined reasons.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data