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Gippsaero Pty Ltd GA8 TC-320
N255AV is a Gippsaero Pty Ltd GA8 TC-320, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2015. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Paula Stewart LLC, an LLC in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 28, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 28, 2015.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Szabo Aerospace LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Gippsaero Pty Ltd
- Model
- GA8 TC-320 · all GA8 TC-320s 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 Gippsaero Pty Ltd GA8 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-TC-320-15-215
- 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 TIO-540-AH1A · 300 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- A26A25 (octal 50465045)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 28, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 28, 2024
- 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 · August 28, 2015
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01188459
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Paula Stewart LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 500455
Saipan, MP 96950-0455
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 N255AV links to the rest of the register
- Gippsaero Pty Ltd GA8 32 registered
- Gippsaero Pty Ltd 32 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Szabo Aerospace LLC · charter operator
- Lycoming TIO-540-AH1A 90 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Paula Stewart LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Saipan, MP 18 aircraft registered in this town
- Northern Mariana Islands 30 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Gippsaero Pty Ltd GA8 14 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Gippsaero Pty Ltd GA8 8 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Gippsaero Pty Ltd GA8 51 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming TIO-540-AH1A 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming TIO-540-AH1A 28 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N255AV, 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 Paula Stewart LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 28, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 28, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial GA8-TC-320-15-215 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N255AV was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 200 (serial BB815, cancelled March 8, 1990). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N255AV. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data