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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 11, 2026Cessna A188A
N9947G is a Cessna A188A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Arthur Aviation LLC, an LLC in Arthur, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 1, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated March 16, 1971.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- A188A · all A188As and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. The Ag Wagon: a crop sprayer with a strengthened aluminium frame. This is how the Cessna A188 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
- 18800747
- 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 · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1971
- Cruising speed
- 96 mph
- Transponder code
- ADE4D3 (octal 53362323)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 1, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 1, 2026
- Airworthiness
- MultipleFAA airworthiness class code 6 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 131 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 16, 1971
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00503390
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Arthur Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 429 Main St
Arthur, ND 58006-7719
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N9947G links to the rest of the register
- Cessna A188 251 registered
- Cessna 72,677 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-520 series 9,482 aircraft with this engine series · 285 hp
- Arthur Aviation LLC 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Arthur, ND 6 aircraft registered in this town
- Arthur Airport · 1A2
- North Dakota 2,493 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna A188 18 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna A188 65 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna A188 162 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-520 series 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-520 series 465 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N9947G, 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 Arthur Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 1, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated March 16, 1971, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18800747 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9947G 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N9947G. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data