Johnston Karl S QUESTAIR VENTURE
N78V is a Johnston Karl S QUESTAIR VENTURE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1996. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Denton, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 19, 2003 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 23, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Johnston Karl S
- Model
- QUESTAIR VENTURE
- Serial number
- 29
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550 SERIES · 300 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- AA9008 (octal 52510010)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 19, 2003
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 23, 1996
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00375661
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fandler Fred E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4 Hidden Valley Airpark
Denton, TX 76208-7302
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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 2
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The public federal record on N78V, 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 Fandler Fred E, an individual, certificate issued March 19, 2003, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 23, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 29 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N78V was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 140 (serial 14585, cancelled September 1, 1970); Enna Jettick Glider Club CHALLENGER C-3 (serial G-932, cancelled July 24, 1935). 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 N78V. 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