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N781G

Lockheed 18-56

N781G is a Lockheed 18-56, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 17 seats. It is registered to Tupelo Aeronautics INC, a corporation in Tupelo, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 19, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated February 14, 1956.

Aircraft

Maker
Lockheed
Model
18-56 · all 18-56s and related versions
Serial number
2430
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Wright C9GC&D SERIES · 1200 hp
Seats
17
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
184 mph
Transponder code
AA94D3 (octal 52512323)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 19, 2026
Expires
August 31, 2033
Last FAA action
August 19, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · February 14, 1956
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00194860

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Tupelo Aeronautics INC
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 4238
Tupelo, MS 38803-4238

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N781G, 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 Tupelo Aeronautics INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 19, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2430 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N781G according to the deregistered file. [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 N781G. 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