Gulfstream American Corp AA-5B
N4518B 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 Smoke Seen LLC, an LLC in Farmingdale, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 20, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 14, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gulfstream American Corp
- Model
- AA-5B · all AA-5Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- AA5B1038
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Transponder code
- A57945 (octal 51274505)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 20, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 14, 1978
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00542794
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smoke Seen LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- C/O Atlantic Aviation
9100 Republic Airport Rt 109
Farmingdale, NY 11735
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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
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The public federal record on N4518B, 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 Smoke Seen LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 20, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 14, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA5B1038 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4518B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 180 (serial 31417, cancelled March 4, 1955). 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]
1 NTSB record under N4518B: Accident on August 25, 1991 at Hampton, NH: 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 AA5B · operated under 091
THE PILOT ROTATED THE AIRPLANE PREMATURELY, RESULTING IN AN INADVERTENT STALL AT TOO LOW AN ALTITUDE TO ALLOW RECOVERY. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE, THE PILOT'S COMPLACENCY, FAILURE TO DETERMINE THE AIRPLANE'S PERFORMANCE CAPABILITIES PRIOR TO TAKE OFF.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC91LA221 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
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