{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"2015-05-12","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-05-17","city":"GIBSON","country_code":"US","county_code":"107","cruise_speed_mph":96,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17071","engine_horsepower":230,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"O 470R","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-17","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2073006","mode_s_code":"53370076","mode_s_hex":"ADF03E","model":"188A","n_number":"N9979G","name":"STEINKE MATTHEW R","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"What Cheer","damage":"SUBS","date":"2016-07-25","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"GAA16CA393","probable_cause":"The loss of engine power for undetermined reasons due to the pilot not making the airplane or engine available for examination, which resulted in a forced landing and an impact with terrain.","registration":"N9979G","state":"IA","summary":"Accident on July 25, 2016 at What Cheer, IA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N9979G is a Cessna 188A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Gibson, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 17, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated May 12, 2015.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Steinke Matthew R, an individual, certificate issued May 17, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 12, 2015, 44 years after the 1971 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18800779 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N9979G 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 N9979G: Accident on July 25, 2016 at What Cheer, IA: 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":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"18800779","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"12713 120TH AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00523310","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N9979G","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1971,"zip":"501048515"}