Flight Design Gmbh CTLS
N178CT is a Flight Design Gmbh CTLS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2008. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Sunbeam Air Sport LLC, an LLC in Galloway, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 28, 2013 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated November 18, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Flight Design Gmbh
- Model
- CTLS · all CTLSs and related versions
- Serial number
- F-08-07-04
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- A13729 (octal 50233451)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 28, 2013
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Light sportFAA airworthiness class code 9 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · AirplaneFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 18, 2008
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01018467
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sunbeam Air Sport LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 988 Doherty Rd
Galloway, OH 43119-9506
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 N178CT, 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 Sunbeam Air Sport LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 28, 2013, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated November 18, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F-08-07-04 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N178CT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Saab-Scania SAAB 340B (serial 340B-178, cancelled March 23, 2006). 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 N178CT: Accident on April 14, 2011 at Jacksonville, FL: no 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: Flight Design GMBH CTLS · operated under 091
The student pilot's improper flare, which resulted in a hard landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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