Piper PA-25-235
N8778L is a Piper PA-25-235, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Robertson Crop Dusting Service INC, a corporation in South Haven, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 16, 1991 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated May 9, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-25-235 · all PA-25-235s and related versions
- Serial number
- 25-5467
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 93 mph
- Transponder code
- AC13D2 (octal 53011722)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 16, 1991
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · May 9, 1972
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00042091
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Robertson Crop Dusting Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 73574 C R 380
South Haven, MI 49090
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N8778L, 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 Robertson Crop Dusting Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 16, 1991, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated May 9, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 25-5467 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8778L 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 N8778L. 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