Grumman G-164A
N897X is a Grumman G-164A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Cw Equipment Rentals INC, a corporation in Biggs, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 16, 2014 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated April 24, 1968.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- G-164A · all G-164As and related versions
- Serial number
- 419
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 98 mph
- Transponder code
- AC6162 (octal 53060542)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 16, 2014
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · April 24, 1968
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00031581
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cw Equipment Rentals INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3184 Hawkins Ln
Biggs, CA 95917-9752
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 N897X, 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 Cw Equipment Rentals INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 16, 2014, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated April 24, 1968, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 419 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N897X 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 N897X: Accident on July 11, 2000 at Gridley, CA: 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: Grumman G-164A · operated under 137
A partial loss of engine power due to the failure of an exhaust valve during an aerial application flight.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX00LA261 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