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A Cessna T303, the same model family as N978NC
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N978NC

Cessna T303

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesKansas

N978NC is a Cessna T303, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1983. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Columbia Asset Trust CORP Trustee, a corporation in Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 30, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 16, 1985.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
T303 · all T303s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna T303 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
T30300206
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Rotax SEE BOMBADIER
Fuel
100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
Seats
4
Year built
1983
Transponder code
ADA28C (octal 53321214)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
June 30, 2026
Expires
June 30, 2033
Last FAA action
June 30, 2026
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 16, 1985
FAA region
CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00351902

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Columbia Asset Trust CORP Trustee
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
7804 e Funston St Ste 210
Wichita, KS 67207-3107

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N978NC links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
Airworthiness

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Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N978NC, 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 Columbia Asset Trust CORP Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued June 30, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated May 16, 1985, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial T30300206 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N978NC according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N978NC. 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 November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data