Sterling Robert 4P
N78GP is a Sterling Robert 4P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 22, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 28, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sterling Robert
- Model
- 4P
- Serial number
- 001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AA8ED1 (octal 52507321)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 22, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 22, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 28, 1997
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00335981
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bailey Eric C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3701 Canyon Cove Dr
Lake Havasu City, AZ 86404-2351
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N78GP, 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 Bailey Eric C, an individual, certificate issued May 22, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N78GP 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]
1 NTSB record under N78GP: Accident on May 9, 2024 at Lake Havasu City, AZ: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Robert Sterling 4P · operated under 091
A loss of engine power during initial climb due to fuel vapor lock. Contributing to the accident was the incorrect installation of the ancillary fuel supply system components.
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data