Dehavilland DHC-1B-2-S5
N178N is a Dehavilland DHC-1B-2-S5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1958. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Delray Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 30, 1970 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated January 31, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-1B-2-S5 · all DHC-1B-2-S5s and related versions
- Serial number
- 184-222
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1958
- Cruising speed
- 93 mph
- Transponder code
- A13811 (octal 50234021)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 30, 1970
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · January 31, 1980
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00702460
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lumley William B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7320 Skyline Dr
Delray Beach, FL 33446-2218
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.
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The public federal record on N178N, 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 Lumley William B, an individual, certificate issued July 30, 1970, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 31, 1980, 22 years after the 1958 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. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 184-222 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N178N 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 N178N. 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 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