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N8778

Raytheon Aircraft Company HAWKER 800XP

Valid Alabama

N8778 is a Raytheon Aircraft Company HAWKER 800XP, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2001. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Ligon Air LLC, an LLC in Birmingham, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 17, 2007 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 16, 2001. 3 documents are on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership), loan release, disclaimer.

Aircraft

Maker
Raytheon Aircraft Company
Model
HAWKER 800XP · all HAWKER 800XPs and related versions
Serial number
258560
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · Honeywell TFE-731-SER · 4,000 lb thrust
Seats
15
Year built
2001
Transponder code
AC13C7 (octal 53011707)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 17, 2007
Expires
January 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · December 16, 2001
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00504054

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Ligon Air LLC
Type
LLC
Address
5109 E Lake Blvd
Birmingham, AL 35217-3503

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Documents on file 3

2026-09-15Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)
2026-09-15Loan release
2026-09-15Disclaimer

Earlier use of this number 1

1933-08-07Swallow TP · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N8778, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Ligon Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 17, 2007, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated December 16, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 258560 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N8778 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Swallow TP (serial 178, cancelled August 7, 1933). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

3 documents received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 15, 2026), Loan release (September 15, 2026), Disclaimer (September 15, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N8778. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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