Cessna 182P
N78720 is a Cessna 182P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Greeley, Colorado. The FAA lists the registration as "sale reported". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 26, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 182P · all 182Ps and related versions
- Serial number
- 18261776
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 120 mph
- Transponder code
- AAAD3E (octal 52526476)
Registration
- Status
- Sale reported
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- July 3, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 26, 1973
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00214830
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sale Reported
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 575 Ed Beegles Ln
Greeley, CO 80631-9021
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N78720, 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 "Sale reported". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 26, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18261776 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N78720 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-11 (serial 11-1472, cancelled March 28, 1963). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N78720: Accident on June 13, 2025 at Hyampom, CA: no 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: Cessna 182P · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to use carburetor heat, which resulted in a loss of engine power due to carburetor icing and a subsequent impact with terrain during a forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR25LA175 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
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