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N7178F

Juhl Ira C FLYBABY MODEL 1-A

N7178F is a Juhl Ira C FLYBABY MODEL 1-A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1991. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Coronado, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 14, 2017 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 12, 1991.

Aircraft

Maker
Juhl Ira C
Model
FLYBABY MODEL 1-A
Serial number
87-1
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 4AC176B SER · 65 hp
Seats
1
Year built
1991
Transponder code
A99984 (octal 52314604)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 14, 2017
Expires
February 28, 2030
Last FAA action
October 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · August 12, 1991
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00145151

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Collins John F
Type
Individual
Address
631 Country Club Ln
Coronado, CA 92118-2035

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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 2

1989-01-27Hughes 269C · N-number assigned but not yet registered
1971-02-23Cessna 150F · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N7178F, 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 Collins John F, an individual, certificate issued February 14, 2017, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 12, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 87-1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N7178F was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Hughes 269C (serial 390777, cancelled January 27, 1989); Cessna 150F (serial 15063778, cancelled February 23, 1971). 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 N7178F. 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