{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1979-04-04","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1984-10-30","city":"RICHVALE","country_code":"US","county_code":"007","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52029","engine_horsepower":660,"engine_maker":"P&W","engine_model":"TWJR-SAIG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-26","maker":"Grumman/Schweizer","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"GRUMMAN/SCHWEIZER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3952804","mode_s_code":"52216400","mode_s_hex":"A91D00","model":"G-164D","n_number":"N6868Q","name":"AVAG INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"RICHVALE","damage":"SUBS","date":"1990-05-06","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"LAX90DVG06","probable_cause":"THE PILOTS LOSS OF DIRECTIONAL CONTROL DURING TAKEOFF WITH A QUARTERING TAILWIND ON A NARROW 30 FOOT WIDE RUNWAY.","registration":"N6868Q","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on May 6, 1990 at Richvale, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N6868Q is a Grumman/Schweizer G-164D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Avag INC, a corporation in Richvale, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 30, 1984 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated April 4, 1979.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Avag INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 30, 1984, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated April 4, 1979, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1D for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N6868Q was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 65-A80 (serial LD-152, cancelled March 3, 1965). 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 N6868Q: Accident on May 6, 1990 at Richvale, CA: 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"1D","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 156","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00520137","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N6868Q","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1978,"zip":"959740156"}