Gippsland GA-8
N13AV is a Gippsland GA-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Grant Aviation INC, a corporation in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 23, 2021 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 30, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gippsland
- Model
- GA-8 · all GA-8s and related versions
- Serial number
- GA8-03-028
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A078EC (octal 50074354)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 23, 2021
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 30, 2004
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00125319
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Grant Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 6420 Kulis Dr
Anchorage, AK 99502
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N13AV, 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 Grant Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 23, 2021, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 30, 2004, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial GA8-03-028 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N13AV was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech E35 (serial D-3945, cancelled September 20, 1980). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N13AV: Accident on June 26, 2024 at Tuntutuliak, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Gippsland GA-8 · operated under 135
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during takeoff after an encounter with a gusting wind, which resulted in a wing strike.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC24LA055 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data