Moody SIPLE MODEL "A"
N78RB is a Moody SIPLE MODEL "A", a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Sign Maxx LLC, an LLC in Larksville, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 29, 2017 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 6, 1985.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Moody
- Model
- SIPLE MODEL "A"
- Serial number
- MS1
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 85 mph
- Transponder code
- AA8FA6 (octal 52507646)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 29, 2017
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · November 6, 1985
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00441617
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sign Maxx LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 812 E Main St
Larksville, PA 18651
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N78RB, 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 Sign Maxx LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 29, 2017, expires December 31, 2027. 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 MS1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N78RB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Raven S55A (serial S55A296, cancelled December 10, 1992). 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 N78RB: Accident on April 21, 2012 at Stuttgart, AR: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Moody-Siple A · operated under 091
The pilot’s inadequate fuel monitoring, which resulted in a total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN12LA259 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
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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