Bombardier Inc BD-700-2A12
N178QS is a Bombardier Inc BD-700-2A12, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2022. It has 22 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 30, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated September 19, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bombardier Inc
- Model
- BD-700-2A12 · all BD-700-2A12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 70116
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- TurbofanFAA type of engine code 5 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 2 motors · Ge GE PASSPORT20 · 18,920 lb thrust
- Seats
- 22
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A13854 (octal 50234124)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 30, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- January 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 19, 2022
- FAA region
- —
- Ownership
- Fractional
- FAA record id
- 01377164
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N178QS, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, a co-owned, certificate issued January 30, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. Fractional ownership is recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated September 19, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 70116 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N178QS 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 N178QS. 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