{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1957-07-25","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2011-12-15","city":"SANTA ROSA BEACH","country_code":"US","county_code":"131","cruise_speed_mph":97,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41508","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-320 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-07","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7101837","mode_s_code":"52504433","mode_s_hex":"AA891B","model":"PA-18A 150","n_number":"N7780D","name":"MATHEWS DEVELOPMENT CO INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N7780D is a Piper PA-18A 150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1957. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Mathews Development CO INC, a corporation in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 15, 2011 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 25, 1957.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Mathews Development CO INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 15, 2011, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated July 25, 1957, consistent with the 1957 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-5969 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N7780D 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N7780D. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"18-5969","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"FL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3320 WEST HIGHWAY C-30-A","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00284780","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N7780D","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1957,"zip":"32459"}