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N1878Q

Cessna 177RG

Valid Texas

N1878Q is a Cessna 177RG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Kachemak Bay Flying Service INC, a corporation in Temple, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 16, 2014 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 17, 1972.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
177RG · all 177RGs and related versions
Serial number
177RG0278
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-A1B6D · 200 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1972
Cruising speed
120 mph
Transponder code
A15E2C (octal 50257054)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 16, 2014
Expires
October 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 24, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · October 17, 1972
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00562750

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Kachemak Bay Flying Service INC
Type
Corporation
Address
7720 Airport Rd Ste C
Temple, TX 76502-6974

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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 N1878Q, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Kachemak Bay Flying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 16, 2014, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated October 17, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 177RG0278 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N1878Q according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N1878Q. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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