{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2009-11-07","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-02-25","city":"CARSON CITY","country_code":"US","county_code":"510","cruise_speed_mph":171,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"33956","engine_horsepower":715,"engine_maker":"HONEYWELL","engine_model":"TPE331-2","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2033-02-28","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-02-25","maker":"Short Bros. & Harland","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SHORT BROS. & HARLAND","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8100512","mode_s_code":"52507450","mode_s_hex":"AA8F28","model":"SC7 SERIES 3","n_number":"N78LA","name":"SPEEDSTAR EXPRESS LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N78LA is a Short Bros. & Harland SC7 SERIES 3, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1976. It has 20 seats. It is registered to Speedstar Express LLC, an LLC in Carson City, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 25, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 7, 2009.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Speedstar Express LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 25, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 7, 2009, 33 years after the 1976 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial SH1950 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N78LA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-23-160 (serial 23-2001, cancelled December 8, 1999). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N78LA. 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":20,"serial_number":"SH1950","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NV","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 20380","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"00015039","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N78LA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1976,"zip":"897210380"}