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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Short Bros. & Harland
- Model
- SC7 SERIES 3 · all SC7 SERIES 3s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Short Bros. & Harland SC-7 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- SH1950
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Honeywell TPE331-2 · 715 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 20
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 171 mph
- Transponder code
- AA8F28 (octal 52507450)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 25, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 25, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 7, 2009
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00015039
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Speedstar Express LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 20380
Carson City, NV 89721-0380
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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
Connections how N78LA links to the rest of the register
- Short Bros. & Harland SC-7 27 registered
- Short Bros. & Harland 33 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Honeywell TPE331-2 3 aircraft with this engine series · 715 hp
- Speedstar Express LLC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Carson City, NV 966 aircraft registered in this town
- Carson City Airport · CXP
- Nevada 4,583 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Short Bros. & Harland SC-7 18 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Short Bros. & Harland SC-7 11 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Short Bros. & Harland SC-7 11 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Honeywell TPE331-2 30 airworthiness directives
- Where N78LA is now · Last seen today at 12:02 pm.
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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 November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data