Cirrus Design Corp SR20
N78RC is a Cirrus Design Corp SR20, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Aviaries LLC, an LLC in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 29, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 26, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cirrus Design Corp
- Model
- SR20 · all SR20s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1259
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-360 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- AA8FA7 (octal 52507647)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 29, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 3, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 26, 2002
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00008919
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aviaries LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 7644 Suffolk Down
Sun Prairie, WI 53590-9522
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 N78RC, 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 Aviaries LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 29, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 26, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1259 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N78RC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Schleicher ASW-19 (serial 19060, cancelled May 30, 2000). 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 N78RC: Accident on October 1, 2025 at Portage, WI: 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: Cirrus Design CORP SR20 · operated under 091
The student pilot’s failure to maintain proper airspeed and attitude for a short field landing. Contributing to the accident was the flight instructor’s delayed remedial action.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN26LA011 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