{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2005-01-13","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2015-05-11","city":"","country_code":"","county_code":"","cruise_speed_mph":131,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17044","engine_horsepower":260,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"IO-470 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-12","maker":"Grumman","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"GRUMMAN","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3951602","mode_s_code":"52510072","mode_s_hex":"AA903A","model":"SCAN TYPE 30","n_number":"N78X","name":"","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N78X is a Grumman SCAN TYPE 30, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1949. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 11, 2015 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 13, 2005.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to an owner whose details are withheld, an individual, certificate issued May 11, 2015, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 13, 2005, 56 years after the 1949 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 32 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N78X was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Forney 415-C (serial 1188, cancelled December 28, 1971). 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 N78X. 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":"","region_code":"","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":5,"serial_number":"32","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00824820","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N78X","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1949,"zip":""}