Grumman G-164A
N949X is a Grumman G-164A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1967. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Valley Sprayers INC, a corporation in Park River, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 30, 1982 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated August 28, 1967.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- G-164A · all G-164As and related versions
- Serial number
- 463
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1967
- Cruising speed
- 98 mph
- Transponder code
- AD30A4 (octal 53230244)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 30, 1982
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · August 28, 1967
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00914680
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Valley Sprayers INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 611
Park River, ND 58270-0611
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 N949X, 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 Valley Sprayers INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 30, 1982, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated August 28, 1967, consistent with the 1967 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 463 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N949X 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 N949X: Accident on July 27, 1995 at Park River, ND: 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-164 · operated under 137
the loss of power due to the primary lead in the left magneto being grounded against the case, and the improper clearance of the breaker point gaps. A factor was the lack of suitable terrain on which to perform the forced landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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