Gulfstream American Corp AA-5B
N423 is a Gulfstream American 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 Grosse Ile, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 7, 1995 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 6, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gulfstream American Corp
- Model
- AA-5B · all AA-5Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- AA5B0986
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Transponder code
- A506C3 (octal 51203303)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 7, 1995
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 6, 1978
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00590363
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shafer Robert T
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 9355 Island Dr
Grosse Ile, MI 48138-1426 - Co-owners
- Shafer Susan A T
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N423, 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 Shafer Robert T, a co-owned, certificate issued November 7, 1995, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 6, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA5B0986 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N423 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Maximum Safety Airplane Co Inc MAXIMUM M4L (serial 1, cancelled May 7, 1930). 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 N423. 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 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
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