Robert E Johnson JUST ACFT HIGHLANDER
N78BJ is a Robert E Johnson JUST ACFT HIGHLANDER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2012. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Laurel Hill, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 4, 2018 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 25, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robert E Johnson
- Model
- JUST ACFT HIGHLANDER
- Serial number
- JA216-09-10
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Viking 110 · 110 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2012
- Kit
- JUST AIRCRAFT LLC HIGHLANDER
- Transponder code
- AA8E4F (octal 52507117)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 4, 2018
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 25, 2012
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01059180
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Poe Daniel G
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9243 Mcfarland Rd
Laurel Hill, NC 28351-8633
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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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N78BJ, 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 Poe Daniel G, an individual, certificate issued April 4, 2018, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 25, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial JA216-09-10 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N78BJ was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Taylor SKYBOLT (serial 100JT, cancelled November 21, 2007). 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 N78BJ: Accident on May 14, 2006 at Sharpsburg, GA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Taylor Skybolt · operated under 091
The pilot's loss of control while conducting aerobatic flight. Factors in the accident were the pilot's ostentatious display, and lack of recent and total experience in type of operation.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL06LA079 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