N453431979 Grumman American AA-5B
Safety record in brief:No NTSB accidents or incidents since 1982No ADs since 1998 matched1 service difficulty report
Registration
FAA Aircraft Registry · Oct 17, 2026- Registered owner
- Individual owner
- City, state
- Reston, VA
- Certificate issued
- May 19, 2011
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal, Utility
- Airworthiness date
- Sep 7, 1979
We never show street addresses, even though they appear in the public FAA file. Individual owners are shown by city and state only.
Airframe & engine
FAA Registry + type dataAirframe
- Manufacturer
- Grumman American
- Model
- AA-5B
- Year
- 1979
- Serial number
- AA5B1265
- Aircraft type
- Fixed wing single engine
- Category
- Land
- Certification
- Type Certificated
- Seats
- 4
- Engines
- 1
- Max takeoff weight
- Up to 12,499 lb
- Mode S code
- A58041
Engine
- Make and model
- Lycoming O&Vo-360 Ser
- Type
- Reciprocating
- Power
- 180 hp
Total time and engine hours aren't public. They appear here once the owner adds logbooks.
Ownership history
Ownership history from FAA records- 2011 – nowIndividual ownerReston, VA · current
- 1962 – 1970Charlotte Aircraft CorpCharlotte, NC · different airframe: 1945 Douglas C-54e S/N 27264
Individual owners are shown by city and state only.
Safety record
NTSB · Oct 15, 2026 · FAA ADs · Oct 17, 2026 · SDRs · Oct 16, 2026NTSB events (0)
No NTSB accidents or incidents found for this airframe since 1982.
Accident history for this modelADs published since 1998 that may apply (0)
These match the airframe or engine model. Whether each one applies, and whether it's been complied with, depends on serial numbers, equipment and logbook entries. Applicability must be confirmed by a mechanic against the aircraft's records.
No ADs published since 1998 matched this airframe or engine model.
AI-extracted — verify against original. Matched from each AD's applicability section; ADs replaced by a later AD are left out.
Service Difficulty Reports (1)
Reports of failures and defects that operators and repair stations sent to the FAA since 1995. A report describes one finding; it is not an accident.
- Engine fuel and control · float · damagedNov 20, 2006
ENGINE IDLE AND LOW POWER PERFORMANCE WAS ERRATIC. UPON ENGINE SHUTDOWN FUEL WAS NOTED DRIPPING FROM CARB/INDUCTION AIRBOX. CARB WAS DISASSEMBLED AND INSPECTED. FOUND PLASTIC TO HAVE PARTIALLY BECOME UNBONDED FROM LOWER SECTION ALLOWING FUEL TO BEGIN LEAKING INTO ASSEMBLY. AS THE FLOAT LOST ITS…
From FAA Service Difficulty Reports; matched by N-number and serial number.
Sources
- FAA Aircraft RegistryRegistration, owner city and state, airframe, engineupdated Oct 17, 2026
- NTSB accident and incident databaseAccidents and incidents since 1982updated Oct 15, 2026
- FAA Airworthiness Directives (Federal Register)ADs published since 1998updated Oct 17, 2026
- FAA Service Difficulty ReportsReports since 1995updated Oct 16, 2026