Beech 77
N178JS is a Beech 77, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Reading, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 14, 2008 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated January 28, 1981.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- 77 · all 77s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. The Skipper trainer. This is how the Beechcraft 77 Skipper family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- WA-230
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A137BE (octal 50233676)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 14, 2008
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · UtilityFAA certificate purpose code U (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 28, 1981
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00080324
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tidd Scott
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 7160 Long Lake Rd
Reading, MI 49274-9814 - Co-owners
- Tidd Jessica
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.
Connections how N178JS links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft 77 Skipper 113 registered
- Beech 17,447 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-235 series 6,131 aircraft with this engine series · 115 hp
- Reading, MI 5 aircraft registered in this town
- Michigan 7,224 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft 77 Skipper 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft 77 Skipper 15 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft 77 Skipper 4 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-235 series 13 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-235 series 20 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N178JS, 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 Tidd Scott, a co-owned, certificate issued August 14, 2008, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated January 28, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial WA-230 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N178JS according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N178JS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data