American AA-1
N1970Y is an American AA-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1970. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Devine, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 20, 2005 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 6, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American
- Model
- AA-1 · all AA-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- AA10240
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1970
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A1849B (octal 50302233)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 20, 2005
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 6, 1998
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00046851
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Crosby A B JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 399 County Road 767
Devine, TX 78016-4516
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N1970Y, 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 Crosby A B JR, an individual, certificate issued October 20, 2005, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 6, 1998, 28 years after the 1970 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 AA10240 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1970Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mooney M20D (serial 235, cancelled March 21, 1989). 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 N1970Y: Accident on December 2, 1986 at Kerrville, TX: serious 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: Mooney M20D · operated under 091
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