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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 9, 2026American General Acft Corp AG5B
N118VU is an American General Acft Corp AG5B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1991. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Midlothian, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 26, 2015 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated June 13, 1991.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- American General Acft Corp
- Model
- AG5B · all AG5Bs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. Glued (bonded) aluminium honeycomb rather than rivets. This is how the American General Acft Corp AG5 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 10049
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1991
- Transponder code
- A04BD9 (octal 50045731)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 26, 2015
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 13, 1991
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00055421
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Brackett Lawrence J
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2761 Falcon Way
Midlothian, TX 76065-4713
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N118VU links to the rest of the register
- American General Acft Corp AG5 114 registered
- American General Acft Corp 114 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360 / VO-360 series 11,929 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Midlothian, TX 184 aircraft registered in this town
- Eagle'S Nest Estates Airport · T56
- Texas 29,976 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the American General Acft Corp AG5 1 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the American General Acft Corp AG5 10 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N118VU, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Brackett Lawrence J, an individual, certificate issued March 26, 2015, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated June 13, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 10049 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N118VU according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N118VU: Accident on April 22, 2001 at Culver, IN: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: American General Aircraft AG5B · operated under 091
the wrong runway selected by the pilot which resulted in a tailwind landing condition. Factors to the accident were the tailwind, the wet runway, the reduced braking action, and the airport perimeter fence.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data