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Grumman F7F-3
N6178C is a Grumman F7F-3, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Comanche Maverick Air LLC, an LLC in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 19, 2017 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control; forest; aerial advertising, dated October 28, 1988.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- F7F-3 · all F7F-3s 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 Grumman F7 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
- 80483
- 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 · P&W DW-CA SERIES · 2300 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 320 mph
- Transponder code
- A80C32 (octal 52006062)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 19, 2017
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 25, 2025
- Airworthiness
- MultipleFAA airworthiness class code 6 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control; Forest; Aerial advertisingFAA certificate purpose code 13143 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 28, 1988
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00841416
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Comanche Maverick Air 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
- 1375 Enclave Pkwy
Houston, TX 77077-2026
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N6178C links to the rest of the register
- Grumman F7 7 registered
- Grumman 443 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney DW-CA series 1 aircraft with this engine series · 2300 hp
- Comanche Maverick Air LLC 17 aircraft in the fleet
- Houston, TX 1,178 aircraft registered in this town
- Conroe/North Houston Regional · CXO
- David Wayne Hooks Memorial · DWH
- Ellington Airport · EFD
- George Bush Intcntl/Houston Airport · IAH
- 8 more landing places in town
- Texas 29,986 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Grumman F7 1 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N6178C, 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 Comanche Maverick Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 19, 2017, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control; forest; aerial advertising; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 80483 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6178C 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 N6178C. 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 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 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 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data