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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Gulfstream American Corp AA-5A
N27157 is a Gulfstream American Corp AA-5A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Waller, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 21, 2021 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 6, 1979.
Where is it now Last seen Wednesday at 6:28 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Gulfstream American 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 Gulfstream American Corp AA-5 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
- AA5A0881
- 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
- 1979
- Transponder code
- A2AD5A (octal 50526532)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 21, 2021
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- 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 6, 1979
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00703562
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nilberg Bjorn
- 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
- 32124 Sky Way Ln
Waller, TX 77484-7513
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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 N27157 links to the rest of the register
- Gulfstream American Corp AA-5 315 registered
- Gulfstream American Corp 316 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Waller, TX 120 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,966 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Gulfstream American Corp AA-5 66 reports since 1995
- Where N27157 is now · Last seen Wednesday at 6:28 pm.
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The public federal record on N27157, 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 Nilberg Bjorn, an individual, certificate issued December 21, 2021, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 6, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA5A0881 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N27157 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3C-65 (serial 4401, cancelled April 30, 1956). 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 N27157. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data