Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5A
N26708 is a Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Flying Chester Cheetah LLC, an LLC in Valdosta, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 14, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 22, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman American Avn. Corp.
- Model
- AA-5A · all AA-5As and related versions
- Serial number
- AA5A0665
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A29B77 (octal 50515567)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 14, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 14, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 22, 1978
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00053432
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Flying Chester Cheetah LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1135 N Lakeshore Dr
Valdosta, GA 31605-5917
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N26708, 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 Flying Chester Cheetah LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 14, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 22, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA5A0665 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N26708 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3F-50 (serial 4126, cancelled June 28, 1948). 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 N26708: Accident on November 23, 2005 at Maceo, KY: no 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: Grumman AA5A · operated under 091
The pilot's misjudged distance/speed, and his failure to properly seat the airplane's recently installed brakes. A factor was the quartering tailwind.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC06CA037 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