Stinson VULTEE V-77
N69418 is a Stinson VULTEE V-77, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Brighton, Michigan. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 31, 1956. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Stinson
- Model
- VULTEE V-77 · all VULTEE V-77s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. The Reliant built for the war: steel-tube fuselage under fabric. This is how the Stinson VULTEE V-77 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
- 77-275
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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, 1 motor · Lycoming R680E SERIES · 300 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 116 mph
- Transponder code
- A93C2E (octal 52236056)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pendingFAA registration status code R (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- August 19, 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 · May 31, 1956
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00200387
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- 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
- 8310 Airport Ln
Brighton, MI 48114-6911
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 1
Connections how N69418 links to the rest of the register
- Stinson VULTEE V-77 85 registered
- Stinson 1,728 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming R680E series 225 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Brighton, MI 98 aircraft registered in this town
- Brighton Airport · 45G
- Michigan 7,231 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming R680E series 5 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming R680E series 1 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N69418, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 77-275 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N69418 according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (November 2, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N69418. 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 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 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 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data
