Smith AEROSTAR 600
N78TS is a Smith AEROSTAR 600, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Celeritas CORP, a corporation in Cranford, New Jersey. The FAA lists the registration as "first notice for registration renewal" (certificate issued February 10, 2014). It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 1, 1978.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Smith
- Model
- AEROSTAR 600 · all AEROSTAR 600s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Smith AEROSTAR 600 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 60-0470-155
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 186 mph
- Transponder code
- AA8FE7 (octal 52507747)
Registration
- Status
- First notice for registration renewalFAA registration status code 25 (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 10, 2014
- Expires
- February 28, 2027
- Last FAA action
- February 6, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 1, 1978
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00464820
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Celeritas CORP
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 17 Lasalle Ave
Cranford, NJ 07016-1943
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N78TS links to the rest of the register
- Smith AEROSTAR 600 42 registered
- Smith 184 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-540 series 4,223 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Celeritas CORP 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Cranford, NJ 6 aircraft registered in this town
- New Jersey 3,019 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-540 series 50 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-540 series 316 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N78TS, 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.
Registration status is "First notice for registration renewal". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 1, 1978, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 60-0470-155 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N78TS according to the deregistered file. [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 N78TS. 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 November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data