Grumman G164C
N996QC is a Grumman G164C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Hds INC, a corporation in Beech Grove, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 19, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated January 29, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- G164C · all G164Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 19C
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W PT6A SER · 750 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- ADEA4E (octal 53365116)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 19, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 19, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · January 29, 1998
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00706951
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hds INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1407 Gr 205 Rd
Beech Grove, AR 72412
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 N996QC, 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 Hds INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 19, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 19C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N996QC 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]
2 NTSB records under N996QC: Accident on May 23, 2012 at Sedgwick, AR: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Accident on July 21, 2008 at Esmond, ND: minor 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-164C · operated under 137
The inability of both pilots to see and avoid the other airplane, which resulted in a midair collision. Contributing to the accident was the distraction of the Air Tractor pilot by a cellular telephone conversation during the flight.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN12FA312 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Grumman G-164D · operated under 137
The pilot's delay in advancing the throttle during the takeoff which resulted in inadequate airspeed and the subsequent stall/mush. Factors associated with the accident were the leaking hopper, the pilot continuing to operate the airplane with the known deficiency, and the pilot's delay in dumping the chemical load.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI08CA201 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