Northwing NAVAJO
N1578M is a Northwing NAVAJO, a weight-shift aircraft with a two-stroke engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Santa Monica, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 21, 2007 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated May 10, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Northwing
- Model
- NAVAJO · all NAVAJOs and related versions
- Serial number
- 01
- Type
- Weight-shift control
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582DCDI · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A0E7AC (octal 50163654)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 21, 2007
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · May 10, 2008
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00414389
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mace Larry
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1600 Oak St
Santa Monica, CA 90405-4802
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N1578M, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Mace Larry, an individual, certificate issued September 21, 2007, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated May 10, 2008, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 01 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1578M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182P (serial 18264376, cancelled March 10, 2004). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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. [3]
1 NTSB record under N1578M: Accident on June 10, 1999 at Lantana, FL: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 182P · operated under 091
The poor in-flight planning by the pilot during the approach for a precautionary landing following a power interruption during the downwind leg, resulting in a go-around. A Contributing factor to the accident was the total loss of engine power during the go-around due to water contamination.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA99LA171 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data