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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5B
N28803 is a Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Forked River, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 16, 2019 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated July 7, 1978.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman American Avn. Corp.
- Model
- AA-5B · all AA-5Bs 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
- AA5B0823
- 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
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A2EE27 (octal 50567047)
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 16, 2019
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 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 · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 7, 1978
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00230553
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Candeletti James J
- 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
- 1316 Sylvania Pl
Forked River, NJ 08731-4147
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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 N28803 links to the rest of the register
- Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5 Traveler, Cheetah and Tiger 1,286 registered
- Grumman American Avn. Corp. 1,675 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360 / VO-360 series 11,930 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Forked River, NJ 11 aircraft registered in this town
- New Jersey 3,017 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N28803, 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 Candeletti James J, an individual, certificate issued July 16, 2019, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated July 7, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA5B0823 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N28803 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Welch OW8M (serial 1001, cancelled December 12, 1940). 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 N28803. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data