Flight Design Gmbh CTSW
N78SR is a Flight Design Gmbh CTSW, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1996. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Iowa City, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 11, 2008 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport previously certificated, dated January 12, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Flight Design Gmbh
- Model
- CTSW · all CTSWs and related versions
- Serial number
- 06-04-12
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- AA8FCD (octal 52507715)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 11, 2008
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Operating light-sport previously certificated · January 12, 2015
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00272069
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gerr Fredric E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5440 Sioux Ave SE
Iowa City, IA 52240-8257
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N78SR, 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 Gerr Fredric E, an individual, certificate issued December 11, 2008, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 12, 2015, 19 years after the 1996 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 06-04-12 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N78SR was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech C90 (serial LJ1078, cancelled December 13, 1991); Douglas DC3 (serial 12580, cancelled February 19, 1971). 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 N78SR. 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