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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- G-73 · all G-73s and related versions
- Serial number
- J-5
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 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 registration
- Certificate issued
- April 26, 1997
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · September 8, 1997
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00145001
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pantechnicon Aviation LTD
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2207 Bellanca St
Minden, NV 89423-8625
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.
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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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA98IA001 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