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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P2010
N278UA is a Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P2010, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2024. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Ab Prop Plane I LLC, an LLC in Metairie, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 9, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 13, 2024.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna
- Model
- P2010 · all P2010s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. A carbon-fibre fuselage with aluminium wings and tail. This is how the Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P2010 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
- 278/US
- 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 · Cont TAE125-02-125 · 170 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- A2C5F7 (octal 50542767)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 9, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 9, 2025
- 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 · September 13, 2024
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01464443
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ab Prop Plane I 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
- 3838 N Causeway Blvd Ste 3335
Metairie, LA 70002-8361
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N278UA links to the rest of the register
- Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P2010 139 registered
- Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna 629 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental TAE125-02-125 44 aircraft with this engine series · 170 hp
- Type certificate A00066CE · held by Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecnam S P A
- Ab Prop Plane I LLC 39 aircraft in the fleet
- Metairie, LA 150 aircraft registered in this town
- Louisiana 3,729 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P2010 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P2010 5 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P2010 9 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental TAE125-02-125 2 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N278UA, 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 Ab Prop Plane I LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 9, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 13, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 278/US for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N278UA 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 N278UA. 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 November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data