Beech G35
N878B is a Beech G35, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1956. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Barber Colman CO, a corporation in Rockford, Illinois. The FAA lists the registration as "registration certificate revoked". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- G35 · all G35s and related versions
- Serial number
- D-4820
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor E225 SERIES · 225 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1956
- Cruising speed
- 131 mph
- Transponder code
- AC1427 (octal 53012047)
Registration
- Status
- Registration certificate revoked
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- January 14, 1977
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00337728
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Barber Colman CO
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1300 Rock Ave
Rockford, IL 61100
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 4 to understand · 0 clear
The public federal record on N878B, 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.
Registration status is "Registration certificate revoked". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
This airframe (serial D-4820) previously flew as N878BC. N878BC cancelled April 4, 1983. The conveyance sequence lives in the FAA aircraft records file. [2]
N878B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20 (serial 1040, cancelled August 14, 1956). 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]
1 NTSB record under N878BC: Accident on January 26, 2018 at Loveland, CO: 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: Robinson Helicopter Company R44 II · operated under 091
The airplane pilot’s failure to see and avoid the helicopter while in the traffic pattern, which resulted in a midair collision between the two aircraft. Contributing to the accident was the airplane pilot’s misunderstanding of the helicopter pilot’s intentions and the airplane pilot’s expectation that the helicopter would be clear of the runway.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN18LA087 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
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