{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1976-06-30","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"","country_code":"","county_code":"","cruise_speed_mph":80,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52008","engine_horsepower":450,"engine_maker":"P&W","engine_model":"R-985 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-08-30","maker":"Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"GRUMMAN ACFT ENG COR-SCHWEIZER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3952802","mode_s_code":"51376710","mode_s_hex":"A5FDC8","model":"G-164B","n_number":"N48518","name":"","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"CROOKSTON","damage":"SUBS","date":"1996-05-25","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CHI96LA186","probable_cause":"catastrophic engine failure.","registration":"N48518","state":"MN","summary":"Accident on May 25, 1996 at Crookston, MN: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"ELDRED","damage":"SUBS","date":"1993-07-13","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CHI93LA254","probable_cause":"the pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the takeoff roll.","registration":"N48518","state":"MN","summary":"Accident on July 13, 1993 at Eldred, MN: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N48518 is a Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The FAA lists the registration as \"n-number assigned but not yet registered\". It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 30, 1976.","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"N-number assigned but not yet registered\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 61B for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N48518 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Noorduyn UC-64A (serial 503, cancelled June 7, 1950). 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":"2 NTSB records under N48518: Accident on May 25, 1996 at Crookston, MN: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 13, 1993 at Eldred, MN: 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":"","region_code":"","registrant_type":"","registrant_type_code":"","seats":1,"serial_number":"61B","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"","status":"N-number assigned but not yet registered","status_code":"2","status_short":"Assigned, not yet registered","street":"","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00500335","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N48518","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":""}