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N288CF

Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5B

Valid Texas

N288CF 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 co-owned owners in Granbury, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 22, 2004 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated July 11, 1978.

Aircraft

Maker
Grumman American Avn. Corp.
Model
AA-5B · all AA-5Bs and related versions
Serial number
AA5B0840
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1978
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A2EBEB (octal 50565753)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 22, 2004
Expires
April 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 5, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · July 11, 1978
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00930533

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Adams Charles R
Type
Co-owned
Address
9621 Air Park Dr
Granbury, TX 76049-4451
Co-owners
Adams Carol A

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N288CF, 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 Adams Charles R, a co-owned, certificate issued September 22, 2004, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated July 11, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA5B0840 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N288CF according to the deregistered file. [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 N288CF. 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 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 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