Cessna A188B
N9703J is a Cessna A188B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Brookshire, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 11, 2018 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated July 24, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A188B · all A188Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18803841T
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1981
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- AD866F (octal 53303157)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 11, 2018
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- October 9, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · July 24, 1981
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00004080
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schmitt Rudy
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 12109 Bonanza Pl
Brookshire, TX 77423-2621
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N9703J, 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 Schmitt Rudy, an individual, certificate issued September 11, 2018, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated July 24, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18803841T for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9703J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-180 (serial 28-3893, cancelled June 11, 1968). 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 N9703J: Accident on July 15, 1996 at Saint Charles, MO: 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 A188B · operated under 137
a partial loss of engine power due to undetermined reasons and the pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control. The factors involved were the pilot did not perform load jettison and low airspeed.
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 September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data