Gulfstream American Corp AA-5B
N45278 is a Gulfstream American Corp AA-5B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Becker Air LLC, an LLC in Stratford, Connecticut. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 3, 2012 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 18, 1979. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gulfstream American Corp
- Model
- AA-5B · all AA-5Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- AA5B1138
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1979
- Transponder code
- A57CF8 (octal 51276370)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 3, 2012
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · May 18, 1979
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00722804
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Becker Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 627 Honeyspot Rd
Stratford, CT 06615-7106
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 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N45278, 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 Becker Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 3, 2012, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 18, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA5B1138 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N45278 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 (serial 2604, cancelled August 22, 1963). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (August 31, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N45278: Accident on May 24, 1989 at Valentine, NE: minor 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: American AA5-B · operated under 091
THE PILOT DELAYED INITIATING A GO-AROUND AFTER NOT ATTAINING A PROPER TOUCHDOWN POINT DURING THE APPROACH TO LAND. CONTRIBUTING FACTORS WERE THE HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE AND THE TREES OFF THE DEPARTURE END OF THE RUNWAY.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MKC89LA113 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