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.
Where is it now Last seen October 17 at 10:35 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Mitsubishi
- Model
- MU-2B-40 · all MU-2B-40s 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. This is how the Mitsubishi MU-2 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
- 435 S.A.
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Airesearch TPE331 SERIES · 904 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A13877 (octal 50234167)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 13, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 15, 2024
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 20, 1980
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00532000
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Crawford Setrige
- 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
- 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
Connections how N178SB links to the rest of the register
- Mitsubishi MU-2 177 registered
- Mitsubishi 199 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- AiResearch (Honeywell) TPE331 series 492 aircraft with this engine series · 904 hp
- Santa Barbara, CA 158 aircraft registered in this town
- Santa Barbara Municipal · SBA
- California 27,610 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Mitsubishi MU-2 54 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Mitsubishi MU-2 274 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Mitsubishi MU-2 340 supplemental type certificates
- Where N178SB is now · Last seen October 17 at 10:35 am.
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data