Globe GC-1B
N78103 is a Globe GC-1B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in San Diego, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 20, 2001 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated July 6, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Globe
- Model
- GC-1B · all GC-1Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2103
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C125 SERIES · 125 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AA96B1 (octal 52513261)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 20, 2001
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · July 6, 1956
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00074860
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Johanson Karl S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 16491 Calle Pulido
San Diego, CA 92128-3250
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 N78103, 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 Johanson Karl S, an individual, certificate issued December 20, 2001, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 6, 1956, 10 years after the 1946 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2103 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N78103 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 N78103: Accident on March 13, 1995 at Norton, KS: minor 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: Globe GC-1B · operated under 091
the reason for the loss of engine power was undetermined. The rough, uneven terrain encountered during the forced landing was a factor.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI95LA112 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data