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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5A
N26257 is a Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Los Angeles, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 5, 2026 and expires on October 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 18, 1977.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman American Avn. Corp.
- Model
- AA-5A · all AA-5As 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. Glued (bonded) aluminium honeycomb rather than rivets. This is how the Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5 Traveler, Cheetah and Tiger 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
- AA5A0490
- 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
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A28992 (octal 50504622)
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 5, 2026
- Expires
- October 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- October 5, 2026
- 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 · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 18, 1977
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00143302
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Katz Matthew
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 344 S Rimpau Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90020-4828
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N26257 links to the rest of the register
- Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5 Traveler, Cheetah and Tiger 1,286 registered
- Grumman American Avn. Corp. 1,676 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Los Angeles, CA 388 aircraft registered in this town
- Los Angeles International · LAX
- Whiteman Airport · WHP
- California 27,642 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N26257.json.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N26257, 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 Katz Matthew, an individual, certificate issued October 5, 2026, expires October 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA5A0490 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N26257 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N26257. 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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data