Beech 58
N4178S is a Beech 58, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Glad Aviation LLC, an LLC in Gilford, New Hampshire. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 6, 1998 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 10, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- 58 · all 58s and related versions
- Serial number
- TH-652
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 165 mph
- Transponder code
- A4F1A2 (octal 51170642)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 6, 1998
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 10, 1975
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00571574
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Glad Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 65 Aviation Way
Gilford, NH 03249-6680
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.
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The public federal record on N4178S, 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 Glad Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 6, 1998, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 10, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial TH-652 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4178S 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 N4178S: Accident on October 2, 1996 at Jackson, MS: serious injuries, substantial 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 58 · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to maintain control of the airplane resulting in an in flight collision with the runway. A factor in this accident was the pilot diverted his attention away from flying the airplane to fix his shoe lace.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA97LA001 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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