Short Bros. & Harland SC7 SERIES 3
N78LA is a Short Bros. & Harland SC7 SERIES 3, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1976. It has 20 seats. It is registered to Speedstar Express LLC, an LLC in Carson City, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 25, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 7, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Short Bros. & Harland
- Model
- SC7 SERIES 3 · all SC7 SERIES 3s and related versions
- Serial number
- SH1950
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · Honeywell TPE331-2 · 715 hp
- Seats
- 20
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 171 mph
- Transponder code
- AA8F28 (octal 52507450)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 25, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 25, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 7, 2009
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00015039
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Speedstar Express LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 20380
Carson City, NV 89721-0380
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N78LA, 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 Speedstar Express LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 25, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 7, 2009, 33 years after the 1976 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial SH1950 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N78LA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-23-160 (serial 23-2001, cancelled December 8, 1999). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N78LA. 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