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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026
N28479

Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5B

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesColorado

N28479 is a Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 10, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.

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Aircraft

Maker
Grumman American Avn. Corp.
Model
AA-5B · all AA-5Bs and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The 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
AA5B0636
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 O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
4
Year built
1977
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A2E046 (octal 50560106)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
July 10, 2023
Expires
July 31, 2030
Last FAA action
July 10, 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
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00415560

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
York Jeffrey
Type
Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
2750 Clapton Dr
Colorado Springs, CO 80920-7240
Co-owners
York Annika

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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

1944-04-01Luscombe 8A · Valid registration

Connections how N28479 links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Place
Live

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Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N28479, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to York Jeffrey, a co-owned, certificate issued July 10, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA5B0636 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N28479 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Luscombe 8A (serial 1346, cancelled April 1, 1944). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N28479. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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