Bowman-Gerald VARIEZE
N378 is a Bowman-Gerald VARIEZE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Santaquin, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 8, 1978 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 10, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bowman-Gerald
- Model
- VARIEZE
- Serial number
- 378
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C75 SERIES · 75 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1979
- Transponder code
- A45182 (octal 51050602)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 8, 1978
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · December 10, 1980
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00530144
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bowman Gerald L
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 471 E 450 S
Santaquin, UT 84655-8059 - Co-owners
- Bowman Irma L
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 3
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N378, 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 Bowman Gerald L, a co-owned, certificate issued November 8, 1978, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 10, 1980, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 378 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N378 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Thoma AR26-A2 (serial 1, cancelled September 9, 1976); North American AT-6C (serial 9583, cancelled June 2, 1948); Orin Welch Aircraft Co O W 3 (serial 10, cancelled September 15, 1937). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N378. 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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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