Piper AEROSTAR 600
N78LS is a Piper AEROSTAR 600, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Nor-Cal Air LLC, an LLC in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 13, 2021 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 17, 1978. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- AEROSTAR 600 · all AEROSTAR 600s and related versions
- Serial number
- 60-0546-176
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1978
- Transponder code
- AA8F38 (octal 52507470)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 13, 2021
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 17, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 17, 1978
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00420522
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nor-Cal Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1001 S Main St Ste 49
Kalispell, MT 59901-5635
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 1
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The public federal record on N78LS, 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 Nor-Cal Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 13, 2021, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 17, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 60-0546-176 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N78LS according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 28, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N78LS. 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