Cessna 320C
N4078Q is a Cessna 320C, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Palmdale, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 4, 2026 and expires on November 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 19, 1965.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 320C · all 320Cs 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 Cessna 320 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
- 320C0046
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Cont Motor TSI0-470-B · 260 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 183 mph
- Transponder code
- A4CA21 (octal 51145041)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 4, 2026
- Expires
- November 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- November 4, 2026
- 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 · April 19, 1965
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00171254
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gerker Carl J
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 39507 Armfield Ave
Palmdale, CA 93551-3939
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N4078Q links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 320 138 registered
- Cessna 72,682 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental TSIO-470-B 76 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- Palmdale, CA 48 aircraft registered in this town
- Palmdale Usaf Plant 42 Airport · PMD
- California 27,897 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 320 20 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 320 44 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 320 164 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental TSIO-470-B 16 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental TSIO-470-B 4 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N4078Q, 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 Gerker Carl J, an individual, certificate issued November 4, 2026, expires November 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 320C0046 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4078Q 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 N4078Q. 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 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data