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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.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Grant Aviation INC, so it can be flown for hire.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Gippsland
- Model
- GA-8 · all GA-8s 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. This is how the Gippsland GA-8 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
- GA8-03-028
- 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 IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A078EC (octal 50074354)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 23, 2021
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 30, 2004
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00125319
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Grant Aviation INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N13AV links to the rest of the register
- Gippsland GA-8 21 registered
- Gippsland 23 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Grant Aviation INC · charter operator
- Lycoming IO-540 series 4,220 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Grant Aviation INC 32 aircraft in the fleet
- Anchorage, AK 2,529 aircraft registered in this town
- Lake Hood Airport · LHD
- Merrill Field · MRI
- Ted Stevens Anchorage International · ANC
- Bold Airport · A13
- 2 more landing places in town
- Alaska 9,143 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Gippsland GA-8 1 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-540 series 49 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-540 series 316 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Cylinder, cracked · 2024-11-29
- Report filed on this aircraft: Float Valve, malfunctioned · 2019-11-12
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N13AV.json.
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data