{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1970-01-13","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2008-08-07","city":"PAGE","country_code":"US","county_code":"017","cruise_speed_mph":98,"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":"2028-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-03","maker":"Grumman","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"GRUMMAN","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3952704","mode_s_code":"52121016","mode_s_hex":"A8A20E","model":"G-164A","n_number":"N6553","name":"TALL TOWERS AVIATION INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"KNOBEL","damage":"SUBS","date":"1988-07-19","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"MKC88LA132","probable_cause":"PROPER TOUCHDOWN POINT NOT ATTAINED, AND AIRCRAFT CONTROL NOT MAINTAINED BY THE PILOT IN COMMAND.","registration":"N6553","state":"AR","summary":"Accident on July 19, 1988 at Knobel, AR: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N6553 is a Grumman G-164A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1970. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Tall Towers Aviation INC, a corporation in Page, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 7, 2008 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated January 13, 1970.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Tall Towers Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 7, 2008, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated January 13, 1970, consistent with the 1970 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 696 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N6553 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mono-Aircraft Inc MONOCOUPE (serial 80, cancelled August 1, 1929). 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":"1 NTSB record under N6553: Accident on July 19, 1988 at Knobel, AR: minor 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":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"696","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"ND","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"14269 17TH ST SE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00542696","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N6553","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1970,"zip":"580649780"}