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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5A
N51790 is a Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5A, 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 Salisbury, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 24, 2017 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 20, 2010.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman American Avn. Corp.
- Model
- AA-5A · all AA-5As 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 Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5 Traveler, Cheetah and Tiger 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
- AA5A-0850
- 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 · Lycoming 0-320-E2G · 150 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A67F1C (octal 51477434)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 24, 2017
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 20, 2010
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00171678
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tartock Russell L
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 109 Waverly Cir
Salisbury, NC 28144-9419
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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 2
Connections how N51790 links to the rest of the register
- Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5 Traveler, Cheetah and Tiger 1,286 registered
- Grumman American Avn. Corp. 1,675 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-320-E2G 33 aircraft with this engine series · 150 hp
- Salisbury, NC 54 aircraft registered in this town
- Mid-Carolina Regional · RUQ
- North Carolina 7,120 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320-E2G 18 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320-E2G 23 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N51790, 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 Tartock Russell L, an individual, certificate issued October 24, 2017, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 20, 2010, 31 years after the 1979 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA5A-0850 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N51790 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172P (serial 17274346, cancelled March 12, 1990); Fairchild M-62A (serial T43-7224, cancelled August 6, 1945). 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 N51790. 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