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Grumman G-73
N168WS is a Grumman G-73, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Pantechnicon Aviation LTD, a corporation in Minden, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 26, 1997 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated September 8, 1997.
Where is it now Last seen October 9 at 4:04 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- G-73 · all G-73s 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 Grumman G-73 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
- J-5
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (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, 2 motors · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 165 mph
- Transponder code
- A1116B (octal 50210553)
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 26, 1997
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 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 · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 8, 1997
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00145001
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pantechnicon Aviation LTD
- 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
- 2207 Bellanca St
Minden, NV 89423-8625
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N168WS links to the rest of the register
- Grumman G-73 15 registered
- Grumman 442 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney R1340 series 1,229 aircraft with this engine series · 600 hp
- Pantechnicon Aviation LTD 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Minden, NV 97 aircraft registered in this town
- Minden-Tahoe Airport · MEV
- Nevada 4,586 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Grumman G-73 6 reports since 1995
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R1340 series 58 reports since 1995
- Where N168WS is now · Last seen October 9 at 4:04 pm.
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The public federal record on N168WS, 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 Pantechnicon Aviation LTD, a corporation, certificate issued April 26, 1997, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 8, 1997, 51 years after the 1946 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial J-5 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N168WS 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 N168WS: Incident on October 1, 1997 at Fort Lauderdale, FL: no injuries, minor 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: Grumman G-73 · operated under 091
the partial failure of a component of the hydraulic system resulting in the collapse of the nose landing gear during the landing roll.
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