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N78BL

Cessna A185F

Valid Maine

N78BL is a Cessna A185F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in West Rockport, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 16, 2005 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 9, 1977.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
A185F
Serial number
18503324
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1977
Cruising speed
127 mph
Transponder code
AA8E51 (octal 52507121)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 16, 2005
Expires
April 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 5, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · April 9, 1977
FAA region
New England
FAA record id
00641255

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Laukka Bruce L
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 157
West Rockport, ME 04865-0157

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

—Beech V35 · B

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