Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164A
N8629H is a Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Hershey Flying Service INC, a corporation in David City, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 20, 2017 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated March 13, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer
- Model
- G-164A · all G-164As and related versions
- Serial number
- 1438
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 81 mph
- Transponder code
- ABD9E0 (octal 52754740)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 20, 2017
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · March 13, 1975
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00242471
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hershey Flying Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 148
David City, NE 68632-0148
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N8629H, 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 Hershey Flying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 20, 2017, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated March 13, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1438 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8629H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: North American NAVION (serial NAV-4-594, cancelled November 5, 1957). 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]
2 NTSB records under N8629H: Accident on May 29, 1998 at Iowa, LA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 15, 1992 at Kinder, LA: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Grumman G-164A · operated under 137
partial loss of engine power during takeoff for undetermined reason(s). The obstructions (trees & dirt bank) were related factors.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW98LA249 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Grumman G-164A · operated under 137
THE FAILURE OF THE LEFT BRAKE WHICH LED TO A LOSS OF DIRECTIONAL CONTROL. A FACTOR WAS THE ROUGH TERRAIN IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO THE RUNWAY.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW92LA137 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