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N178B

Gulfstream Aerospace G1159B

Valid Oklahoma

N178B is a Gulfstream Aerospace G1159B, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1973. It has 22 seats. It is registered to Missile Defense Agency (Mda), a government body in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 5, 2004 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated July 12, 2023.

Aircraft

Maker
Gulfstream Aerospace
Model
G1159B
Serial number
125
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbojet, 2 motors · Rolls-Royc SPEY 511-8 · 11,400 lb thrust
Seats
22
Year built
1973
Transponder code
A136FE (octal 50233376)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 5, 2004
Expires
November 30, 2028
Last FAA action
June 23, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Research and development · July 12, 2023
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00883163

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Missile Defense Agency (Mda)
Type
Government
Address
C/O L-3 Aeromet INC
6501 E Apache St
Tulsa, OK 74115-3640
Co-owners
Department Of Defense

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1977-07-21Bell 47G · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data