Piper PA-30
N8778Y is a Piper PA-30, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Bad Altitude Aviation, an LLC in Washington, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 21, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 12, 1969.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-30 · all PA-30s and related versions
- Serial number
- 30-1934
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming IO-320 SERIES · 150 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 139 mph
- Transponder code
- AC13DE (octal 53011736)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 21, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 21, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 12, 1969
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00952081
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bad Altitude Aviation
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 154 Wagon Wheel Dr
Washington, UT 84780-1822
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 N8778Y, 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 Bad Altitude Aviation, an LLC, certificate issued February 21, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 12, 1969, consistent with the 1969 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30-1934 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8778Y 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 N8778Y: Accident on February 11, 1995 at Miami, FL: minor 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: Piper PA-30 · operated under 091
THE FAILURE OF THE TRUCK DRIVER TO FOLLOW AIRPORT OPERATIONS PROCEDURES AND SIGNS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA95LA076 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