Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5B
N4545T is a Grumman American Avn. 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 an individual in Naples, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 28, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 10, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman American Avn. Corp.
- Model
- AA-5B · all AA-5Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- AA5B1268
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A58411 (octal 51302021)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 28, 2024
- Expires
- August 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- August 28, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 10, 1979
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00742874
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nero Richard C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2303 Kings Lake Blvd
Naples, FL 34112-5300
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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 N4545T, 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 Nero Richard C, an individual, certificate issued August 28, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 10, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA5B1268 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4545T was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-34-200 (serial 34-7250161, cancelled May 17, 1972). 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 N4545T: Accident on August 5, 2001 at Beaver Island, MI: 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 AA-5B · operated under 091
The pilot misjudged the approach and landing, and his failure to abort the landing. Factors associated with the accident were the trees at the approach end of the runway and the sand/gravel pit that the airplane traveled into.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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