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Beech 1900D
N178YV is a Beech 1900D, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1995. It has 19 seats. It is registered to Alpine Aviation INC, a corporation in Provo, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 25, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for commuter, dated November 3, 1995.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- 1900D · all 1900Ds 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 Beechcraft 1900 Airliner 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
- UE-178
- 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 · P&W PT6A SER · 750 hp
- Seats
- 19
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- A1391F (octal 50234437)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 25, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 25, 2023
- 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 · CommuterFAA certificate purpose code C (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 3, 1995
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00765432
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Alpine Aviation INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1177 Alpine Air Way
Provo, UT 84601-8270
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.
Connections how N178YV links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft 1900 Airliner 157 registered
- Beech 17,447 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 2,217 aircraft with this engine series · 750 hp
- Alpine Aviation INC 77 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to August 9, 2027
- Provo, UT 145 aircraft registered in this town
- Provo Municipal · PVU
- Utah 8,362 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft 1900 Airliner 68 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft 1900 Airliner 9,079 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft 1900 Airliner 272 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 8,208 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Skin, dented · 2013-10-05
- Report filed on this aircraft: Unknown, odor · 2013-02-13
- Report filed on this aircraft: Switch, failed · 2012-11-26
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The public federal record on N178YV, 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 Alpine Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 25, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for commuter, dated November 3, 1995, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial UE-178 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N178YV 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]
1 NTSB record under N178YV: Incident on March 13, 2012 at Hays, KS: minor 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: Beech 1900D · operated under 121
A failure of the nose landing gear end cap due to fatigue. Contributing to the failure were the ineffective inspection and the unknown effect of grain direction on fatigue life.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data