Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5B
N321GD 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 First Light INC, a corporation in Lafayette, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 23, 2022 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 26, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman American Avn. Corp.
- Model
- AA-5B · all AA-5Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- AA5B0461
- 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
- A372A1 (octal 50671241)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 23, 2022
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · March 26, 1977
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00970272
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- First Light INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1300 Myrtle Pl
Lafayette, LA 70506-2534
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N321GD, 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 First Light INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 23, 2022, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 26, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA5B0461 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N321GD according to the deregistered file. [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]
1 NTSB record under N321GD: Accident on December 21, 2022 at Reserve, LA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Grumman American AA-5B · operated under 091
The partial loss of engine power due to carburetor icing and the flight instructor’s failure to use carburetor heat in weather conditions conducive to serious carburetor icing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN23LA068 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data