{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1989-08-04","airworthiness_ops":"Aerial advertising","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1989-10-10","city":"OCEAN CITY","country_code":"US","county_code":"047","cruise_speed_mph":101,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41514","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O&VO-360 SER","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":"Bellanca","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELLANCA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1220803","mode_s_code":"53022436","mode_s_hex":"AC251E","model":"8GCBC","n_number":"N88189","name":"OCEAN AERIAL ADS INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"BERLIN","damage":"DEST","date":"1993-07-12","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"BFO93FA119","probable_cause":"FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN AIRSPEED DURING PULLUP FROM AN ATTEMPTED BANNER PICKUP, WHICH RESULTED IN A STALL.","registration":"N88189","state":"MD","summary":"Accident on July 12, 1993 at Berlin, MD: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N88189 is a Bellanca 8GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Ocean Aerial Ads INC, a corporation in Ocean City, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 10, 1989 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial advertising, dated August 4, 1989.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Ocean Aerial Ads INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 10, 1989, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Restricted certificate for aerial advertising; 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 89-74 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N88189 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3C-65 (serial 15805, cancelled February 13, 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":"1 NTSB record under N88189: Accident on July 12, 1993 at Berlin, MD: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":3,"serial_number":"89-74","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MD","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 813","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00211951","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N88189","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"21842"}