Beech A36
N78BF is a Beech A36, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Sandbar Air LLC, an LLC in Saint Petersburg, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 13, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated April 28, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- A36 · all A36s and related versions
- Serial number
- E-331
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 138 mph
- Transponder code
- AA8E4C (octal 52507114)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 13, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 20, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · April 28, 1972
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00790910
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sandbar Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 136 4Th St N Ste 243
Saint Petersburg, FL 33701-3893
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N78BF, 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 Sandbar Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 13, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated April 28, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial E-331 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N78BF 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N78BF. 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 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