{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1979-09-11","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-09-17","city":"POLO","country_code":"US","county_code":"141","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17040","engine_horsepower":300,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"TSIO-520 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2031-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-09-17","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2073012","mode_s_code":"50550242","mode_s_hex":"A2D0A2","model":"T188C","n_number":"N2802J","name":"CENTRAL STATES AERIAL LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Oregon","damage":"SUBS","date":"2025-07-22","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CEN25FA273","probable_cause":"","registration":"N2802J","state":"IL","summary":"Accident on July 22, 2025 at Oregon, IL: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"},{"city":"Choteau","damage":"SUBS","date":"2002-07-29","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"SEA02LA138","probable_cause":"Fuel exhaustion as a result of the pilot's inattention to fuel consumption (flight duration) which resulted in a total loss of power and subsequent hard landing.","registration":"N2802J","state":"MT","summary":"Accident on July 29, 2002 at Choteau, MT: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"FORT BENTON","damage":"SUBS","date":"1989-07-07","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"DEN89LA172","probable_cause":"OVERLOAD FAILURE OF THE LEFT MAIN LANDING GEAR ATTACHING BOLTS FOR AN UNKNOWN REASON.","registration":"N2802J","state":"MT","summary":"Accident on July 7, 1989 at Fort Benton, MT: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N2802J is a Cessna T188C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Central States Aerial LLC, an LLC in Polo, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 17, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated September 11, 1979.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Central States Aerial LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 17, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated September 11, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial T18803515T for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N2802J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-25-235 (serial 25-2877, cancelled September 10, 1964). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"3 NTSB records under N2802J: Accident on July 22, 2025 at Oregon, IL: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Accident on July 29, 2002 at Choteau, MT: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 7, 1989 at Fort Benton, MT: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":1,"serial_number":"T18803515T","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"110 N MAPLE AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00390263","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N2802J","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1979,"zip":"610641413"}