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N178N

Dehavilland DHC-1B-2-S5

Valid Florida

N178N is a Dehavilland DHC-1B-2-S5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1958. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Delray Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 30, 1970 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated January 31, 1980.

Aircraft

Maker
Dehavilland
Model
DHC-1B-2-S5
Serial number
184-222
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
1958
Cruising speed
93 mph
Transponder code
A13811 (octal 50234021)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 30, 1970
Expires
January 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 14, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · January 31, 1980
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00702460

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Lumley William B
Type
Individual
Address
7320 Skyline Dr
Delray Beach, FL 33446-2218

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.

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