{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1977-04-09","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2005-09-16","city":"WEST ROCKPORT","country_code":"US","county_code":"013","cruise_speed_mph":127,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17032","engine_horsepower":285,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"IO 520 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-05","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2072821","mode_s_code":"52507121","mode_s_hex":"AA8E51","model":"A185F","n_number":"N78BL","name":"LAUKKA BRUCE L","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"PALM CITY","damage":"DEST","date":"1987-01-06","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"MIA87FA067","probable_cause":"","registration":"N78BL","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on January 6, 1987 at Palm City, FL: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N78BL is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in West Rockport, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 16, 2005 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 9, 1977.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Laukka Bruce L, an individual, certificate issued September 16, 2005, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated April 9, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18503324 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N78BL was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech V35 (serial D7979, 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 N78BL: Accident on January 6, 1987 at Palm City, FL: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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":"New England","region_code":"E","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":6,"serial_number":"18503324","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"ME","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 157","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00641255","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N78BL","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1977,"zip":"048650157"}