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N78BK

Textron Aviation Inc 182T

Valid Missouri

N78BK is a Textron Aviation Inc 182T, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2024. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kansas City, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 19, 2024 and expires on November 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 23, 2024.

Aircraft

Maker
Textron Aviation Inc
Model
182T · all 182Ts and related versions
Serial number
18283277
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AB1A5 · 230 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2024
Transponder code
AA8E50 (octal 52507120)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 19, 2024
Expires
November 30, 2031
Last FAA action
November 19, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · October 23, 2024
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
01473065

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Kang Byung
Type
Individual
Address
4114 N Harrison Ave
Kansas City, MO 64116-2285

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

2005-05-05Kleinsorge William J A-65 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N78BK, 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 Kang Byung, an individual, certificate issued November 19, 2024, expires November 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated October 23, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18283277 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N78BK was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Kleinsorge William J A-65 (serial 200209, cancelled May 5, 2005). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N78BK: Accident on March 7, 2020 at Mack, CO: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

CEN20CA116Accident on March 7, 2020 at Mack, CO: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: CC11-00222

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cub Crafters CC11-160 · operated under 091

The pilot's failure to reconnoiter the approach area in preparation for an off-airport landing on a sandbar, which necessitated an evasive maneuver to avoid wires and resulted in an unintentional landing in the river short of the sandbar and a subsequent nose-over.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN20CA116 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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