Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5A
N160TX is a Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in La Quinta, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 20, 2021 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 19, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman American Avn. Corp.
- Model
- AA-5A · all AA-5As and related versions
- Serial number
- AA5A-0143
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A0F36D (octal 50171555)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 20, 2021
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 19, 1976
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00163990
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Stark Micah S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 52015 Avenida Martinez
La Quinta, CA 92253-3297
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 N160TX, 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 Stark Micah S, an individual, certificate issued March 20, 2021, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 19, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA5A-0143 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N160TX was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R44 (serial 0997, cancelled January 30, 2008). 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 N160TX: Accident on August 23, 2005 at Odessa, TX: 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: Robinson R-44 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain main rotor RPM and the improper landing flare which resulted in a hard landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data