{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1973-02-26","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"GREELEY","country_code":"US","county_code":"123","cruise_speed_mph":120,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17026","engine_horsepower":230,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"O-470 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-07-03","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2075816","mode_s_code":"52526476","mode_s_hex":"AAAD3E","model":"182P","n_number":"N78720","name":"SALE REPORTED","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Hyampom","damage":"SUBS","date":"2025-06-13","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"WPR25LA175","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s failure to use carburetor heat, which resulted in a loss of engine power due to\ncarburetor icing and a subsequent impact with terrain during a forced landing.","registration":"N78720","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on June 13, 2025 at Hyampom, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N78720 is a Cessna 182P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Greeley, Colorado. The FAA lists the registration as \"sale reported\". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 26, 1973.","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Sale reported\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated February 26, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18261776 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N78720 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-11 (serial 11-1472, cancelled March 28, 1963). 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 N78720: Accident on June 13, 2025 at Hyampom, CA: 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"18261776","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CO","status":"Sale reported","status_code":"7","status_short":"Sale reported","street":"575 ED BEEGLES LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00214830","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N78720","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1973,"zip":"806319021"}