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N678SP

Cessna 172S

Valid Virginia

N678SP is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Norfolk, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 9, 2015 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 28, 1999.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172S · all 172Ss and related versions
Serial number
172S8089
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1999
Transponder code
A8FB0E (octal 52175416)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 9, 2015
Expires
February 29, 2028
Last FAA action
April 21, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · January 28, 1999
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00273936

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Freed Bryan S
Type
Individual
Address
586 W Ocean View Ave Apt 3
Norfolk, VA 23503-1494

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1989-02-22Gates Lear Jet 24F · N-number assigned but not yet registered

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N678SP, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Freed Bryan S, an individual, certificate issued February 9, 2015, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated January 28, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8089 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N678SP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Gates Lear Jet 24F (serial 354, cancelled February 22, 1989). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N678SP. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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