{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2015-06-02","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-05-16","city":"ANACONDA","country_code":"US","county_code":"023","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52141","engine_horsepower":680,"engine_maker":"P & W","engine_model":"PT6A-27","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2033-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-05-16","maker":"Dehavilland","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"DEHAVILLAND","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2802630","mode_s_code":"50233576","mode_s_hex":"A1377E","model":"DHC-6-300","n_number":"N178GC","name":"RIGIDWORKS LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Peach Springs","damage":"","date":"2011-05-21","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ENG11IA032","probable_cause":"A quality control failure in the Sungear, Inc. manufacturing and quality control process allowed  sungears with surface finishes of the root fillet radius of the spline that did not conform to the drawing specifications to be released. The surface finish defect caused fatigue cracks to initiate early in the part life.","registration":"N178GC","state":"AZ","summary":"Incident on May 21, 2011 at Peach Springs, AZ: no injuries.","type":"INC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N178GC is a Dehavilland DHC-6-300, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1980. It has 22 seats. It is registered to Rigidworks LLC, an LLC in Anaconda, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 16, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 2, 2015.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Rigidworks LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 16, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 2, 2015, 35 years after the 1980 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 697 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N178GC according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N178GC: Incident on May 21, 2011 at Peach Springs, AZ: no injuries. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":22,"serial_number":"697","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MT","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 758","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"00025248","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N178GC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1980,"zip":"597110758"}