{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1981-11-05","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2002-04-15","city":"PACIFIC PALISADES","country_code":"US","county_code":"037","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41532","engine_horsepower":250,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-540 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-29","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2072735","mode_s_code":"51426633","mode_s_hex":"A62D9B","model":"TR182","n_number":"N4978T","name":"ROTH ROBERT A","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Wheeling","damage":"SUBS","date":"2005-06-07","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CHI05LA136","probable_cause":"The pilot failed to verify that the landing gear were fully extended and failed to perform the emergency landing gear extention procedures.  Factors to the accident included the low hydraulic fluid level, and the weak battery that resulted in a partial electrical failure.","registration":"N4978T","state":"IL","summary":"Accident on June 7, 2005 at Wheeling, IL: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N4978T is a Cessna TR182, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pacific Palisades, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 15, 2002 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 5, 1981.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Roth Robert A, an individual, certificate issued April 15, 2002, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated November 5, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial R18201811 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N4978T was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-34-200 (serial 34-7250191, cancelled June 20, 1972); Cessna 411 (serial 4110178, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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 N4978T: Accident on June 7, 2005 at Wheeling, IL: no injuries, substantial damage. 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"R18201811","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"16915 BOLLINGER DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00060755","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4978T","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1981,"zip":"902723222"}