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N28483

Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5B

Valid Wisconsin

N28483 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 an individual in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 22, 1988 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 29, 1977.

Aircraft

Maker
Grumman American Avn. Corp.
Model
AA-5B · all AA-5Bs and related versions
Serial number
AA5B0637
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1977
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A2E063 (octal 50560143)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 22, 1988
Expires
January 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 14, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · October 29, 1977
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00450453

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Forsgren Lyle M
Type
Individual
Address
5517 State Road 44
Oshkosh, WI 54904-6848

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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

1951-04-13Luscombe 8B · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N28483, 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 Forsgren Lyle M, an individual, certificate issued August 22, 1988, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 29, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA5B0637 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N28483 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Luscombe 8B (serial 1350, cancelled April 13, 1951). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N28483: Accident on November 2, 1987 at Leavenworth, IN: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

CHI88LA013Accident on November 2, 1987 at Leavenworth, IN: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Grumman AA-5B · operated under 091

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data