{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2001-12-16","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2007-12-17","city":"BIRMINGHAM","country_code":"US","county_code":"073","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-15"},{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Loan release","doc_type_code":"REL","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-15"},{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Disclaimer","doc_type_code":"DIS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-15"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"33902","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"HONEYWELL","engine_model":"TFE-731-SER","engine_thrust_lb":4000,"expiration_date":"2029-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"business-jets","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-07-07","maker":"Raytheon Aircraft Company","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT COMPANY","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7150012","mode_s_code":"53011707","mode_s_hex":"AC13C7","model":"HAWKER 800XP","n_number":"N8778","name":"LIGON AIR LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8778 is a Raytheon Aircraft Company HAWKER 800XP, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2001. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Ligon Air LLC, an LLC in Birmingham, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 17, 2007 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 16, 2001. 3 documents are on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership), loan release, disclaimer.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Ligon Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 17, 2007, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for transport, dated December 16, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 258560 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N8778 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Swallow TP (serial 178, cancelled August 7, 1933). 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":"3 documents received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 15, 2026), Loan release (September 15, 2026), Disclaimer (September 15, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N8778. 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":15,"serial_number":"258560","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"5109 E LAKE BLVD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turbofan","type_engine_code":"5","unique_id":"00504054","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8778","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2001,"zip":"352173503"}