Dassault-Breguet FALCON 20
N78MB is a Dassault-Breguet FALCON 20, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1977. It has 10 seats. It is registered to V1Vr LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 5, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 9, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dassault-Breguet
- Model
- FALCON 20 · all FALCON 20s and related versions
- Serial number
- 363
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Honeywell TFE731-2B · 3,500 lb thrust
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 400 mph
- Transponder code
- AA8F42 (octal 52507502)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 5, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 5, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · March 9, 2012
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00156901
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- V1Vr LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 108 W 13Th St Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19801-1145
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N78MB, 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 V1Vr LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 5, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 9, 2012, 35 years after the 1977 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 363 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N78MB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech C24R (serial MC-645, cancelled August 22, 2007). 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]
1 NTSB record under N78MB: Accident on July 11, 2006 at Virginia Beach, VA: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech C24R · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain airspeed, which resulted in an inadvertent stall/spin while maneuvering at a low altitude. Contributing was the pilot's diverted attention to an open door.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW06FA180 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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