Globe GC-1B
N80978 is a Globe GC-1B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Brewster, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 23, 2005 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 22, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Globe
- Model
- GC-1B · all GC-1Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1171
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C125 SERIES · 125 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AB06BA (octal 52603272)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 23, 2005
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 22, 1956
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00311728
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith David Carroll
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 343 Monse River Rd
Brewster, WA 98812-9553
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.
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The public federal record on N80978, 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 Smith David Carroll, an individual, certificate issued May 23, 2005, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1171 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N80978 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]
1 NTSB record under N80978: Accident on August 20, 2003 at Cottonwood, ID: 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: Globe GC-1B · operated under 091
The pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing, and his failure to maintain directional control of the airplane. Factors contributing to the accident were the updraft, the terrain drop-off, and the fence.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA03LA175 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