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N178X

Piper PA-30

Valid Louisiana

N178X is a Piper PA-30, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Ss Aviation LLC, an LLC in Sulphur, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 2, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a special flight permit airworthiness certificate for operation in excess of maximum certificated, dated September 13, 1971.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-30
Serial number
30-1950
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming IO-320 SERIES · 150 hp
Seats
6
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
139 mph
Transponder code
A138F2 (octal 50234362)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 2, 2025
Expires
July 31, 2032
Last FAA action
July 2, 2025
Airworthiness
Special flight permit · Operation in excess of maximum certificated · September 13, 1971
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00182470

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Ss Aviation LLC
Type
LLC
Address
3624 Violet Ln
Sulphur, LA 70665-8065

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