{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2020-06-16","city":"DENISON","country_code":"US","county_code":"181","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2027-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"VANS AIRCRAFT INC","kit_model":"RV-6","last_action_date":"2023-03-08","maker":"Fitzgerald Charles W","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"FITZGERALD CHARLES W","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05614LD","mode_s_code":"52507145","mode_s_hex":"AA8E65","model":"RV-6","n_number":"N78CF","name":"RICHMOND CHARLES H","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"HOLLYWOOD","damage":"SUBS","date":"1991-10-06","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"MIA92LA005","probable_cause":"THE FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN ROTOR RPM AND THE FAILURE OF THE CFI TO MONITOR THE CONTROLS.","registration":"N78CF","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on October 6, 1991 at Hollywood, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N78CF is a Fitzgerald Charles W RV-6, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Denison, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 16, 2020 and expires on June 30, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Richmond Charles H, an individual, certificate issued June 16, 2020, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 60016 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N78CF was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-31-350 (serial 31-7305038, cancelled December 22, 1999); Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1 (serial 45206, cancelled December 27, 1995). 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 N78CF: Accident on October 6, 1991 at Hollywood, FL: 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"60016","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"101 DIAMOND POINT LOOP 55","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00264104","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N78CF","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"75020"}