Mitsubishi MU-2B-40
N178SB is a Mitsubishi MU-2B-40, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines. It has 10 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Santa Barbara, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 13, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 20, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mitsubishi
- Model
- MU-2B-40 · all MU-2B-40s and related versions
- Serial number
- 435 S.A.
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · Airesearch TPE331 SERIES · 904 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A13877 (octal 50234167)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 13, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 15, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 20, 1980
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00532000
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Crawford Setrige
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 3726 State St Unit 138
Santa Barbara, CA 93105-3387 - Co-owners
- Crawford Kym
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 · 2 clear
The public federal record on N178SB, 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 Crawford Setrige, a co-owned, certificate issued May 13, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 435 S.A. for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N178SB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-34-200T (serial 34-7870206, cancelled March 12, 2018). 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 N178SB: Accident on August 11, 2014 at Gainesville, 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: Piper PA 34-200T · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate landing flare, which resulted in a bounced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA14CA406 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