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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026Flight Design Gmbh CTSW
N178SW is a Flight Design Gmbh CTSW, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Ample Aviation LLC, an LLC in Peoria, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 28, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated July 1, 2008.
Where is it now Last seen Friday at 5:27 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Flight Design Gmbh
- Model
- CTSW · all CTSWs and related versions
- Built of
- compositeThe airframe is composite: carbon fibre or glass fibre set in resin, moulded in large pieces with few joints, which gives smooth shapes but needs different inspection and repair methods from metal. This is how the Flight Design Gmbh CTSW 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
- 07-06-11
- 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
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A1388A (octal 50234212)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 28, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Light sportFAA airworthiness class code 9 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · AirplaneFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 1, 2008
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00437449
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ample Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 5056
Peoria, AZ 85385-5056
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N178SW links to the rest of the register
- Flight Design Gmbh CTSW 181 registered
- Flight Design Gmbh 330 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 912ULS series 3,383 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Ample Aviation LLC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Peoria, AZ 157 aircraft registered in this town
- Arizona 8,418 aircraft registered
- Where N178SW is now · Last seen Friday at 5:27 pm.
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The public federal record on N178SW, 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 Ample Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 28, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 07-06-11 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N178SW 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 N178SW. 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 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data