Cessna 188A
N9979G is a Cessna 188A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Gibson, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 17, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated May 12, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 188A · all 188As and related versions
- Serial number
- 18800779
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O 470R · 230 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1971
- Cruising speed
- 96 mph
- Transponder code
- ADF03E (octal 53370076)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 17, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · May 12, 2015
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00523310
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Steinke Matthew R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 12713 120Th Ave
Gibson, IA 50104-8515
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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 N9979G, 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 Steinke Matthew R, an individual, certificate issued May 17, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 12, 2015, 44 years after the 1971 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18800779 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9979G 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 N9979G: Accident on July 25, 2016 at What Cheer, IA: 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 188 · operated under 091
The loss of engine power for undetermined reasons due to the pilot not making the airplane or engine available for examination, which resulted in a forced landing and an impact with terrain.
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
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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