{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1968-07-03","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-01-14","city":"RUSSELLVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"059","cruise_speed_mph":167,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Loan or lien (security agreement)","doc_type_code":"S/A","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-16"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17027","engine_horsepower":260,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"I0-470 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-30","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2074234","mode_s_code":"53320534","mode_s_hex":"ADA15C","model":"310N","n_number":"N978","name":"DESTINATION FLIGHT SOLUTIONS LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N978 is a Cessna 310N, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Destination Flight Solutions LLC, an LLC in Russellville, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 14, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 3, 1968. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Destination Flight Solutions LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 14, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated July 3, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 310N-0128 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N978 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Sikorsky S62A (serial 62009, cancelled September 18, 2009); Pitcairn PA-3 OROWING (serial 30, cancelled September 3, 1939). 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":"1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 16, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N978. 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":6,"serial_number":"310N-0128","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"14696 HIGHWAY 43","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00202770","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N978","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1968,"zip":"356532551"}