{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1974-12-16","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2010-09-07","city":"LANCASTER","country_code":"US","county_code":"005","cruise_speed_mph":108,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17032","engine_horsepower":285,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"IO 520 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-03","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2073005","mode_s_code":"52520775","mode_s_hex":"AAA1FD","model":"A188B","n_number":"N78417","name":"MCELWAIN RUSSELL D","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Atchison","damage":"SUBS","date":"2018-08-22","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CEN18LA350","probable_cause":"The partial loss of engine power for reasons that could not be determined during the postaccident examination.","registration":"N78417","state":"KS","summary":"Accident on August 22, 2018 at Atchison, KS: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"MCELWAIN KYLE R","plain_english":"N78417 is a Cessna A188B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Lancaster, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 7, 2010 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated December 16, 1974.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Mcelwain Russell D, a co-owned, certificate issued September 7, 2010, 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 December 16, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18801952T for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N78417 according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N78417: Accident on August 22, 2018 at Atchison, KS: 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":1,"serial_number":"18801952T","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"KS","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"11599 286TH RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00044920","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N78417","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1974,"zip":"660419138"}