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N78V

Johnston Karl S QUESTAIR VENTURE

Valid Texas

N78V is a Johnston Karl S QUESTAIR VENTURE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1996. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Denton, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 19, 2003 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 23, 1996.

Aircraft

Maker
Johnston Karl S
Model
QUESTAIR VENTURE
Serial number
29
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550 SERIES · 300 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1996
Transponder code
AA9008 (octal 52510010)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 19, 2003
Expires
November 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 15, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · September 23, 1996
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00375661

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Fandler Fred E
Type
Individual
Address
4 Hidden Valley Airpark
Denton, TX 76208-7302

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 2

1970-09-01Cessna 140 · Valid registration
1935-07-24Enna Jettick Glider Club CHALLENGER C-3 · Valid registration

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