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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Gulfstream American Corp AA-5B
N4540N 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 Rocking Wings LLC, an LLC in Lusk, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 26, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 29, 1979. 2 documents are on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership), loan or lien (security agreement).
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Gulfstream American Corp
- Model
- AA-5B · all AA-5Bs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. Glued (bonded) aluminium honeycomb rather than rivets. This is how the Gulfstream American Corp AA-5 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- AA5B-1308
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1979
- Transponder code
- A5835D (octal 51301535)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 26, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 26, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 29, 1979
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00282864
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rocking Wings LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 950 Hat Creek Rd
Lusk, WY 82225-6500
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 2
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N4540N links to the rest of the register
- Gulfstream American Corp AA-5 315 registered
- Gulfstream American Corp 316 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rocking Wings LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Lusk, WY 11 aircraft registered in this town
- Lusk Municipal · LSK
- Wyoming 3,234 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Gulfstream American Corp AA-5 66 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N4540N, 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 Rocking Wings LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 26, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 29, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA5B-1308 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4540N was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Consolidated Vultee BT-13A (serial 7499, cancelled December 18, 1956). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (October 23, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N4540N. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data