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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Gippsaero GA8
N521AV is a Gippsaero GA8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2013. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Grant Aviation INC, a corporation in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 23, 2021 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 27, 2014.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Grant Aviation INC, so it can be flown for hire.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Gippsaero
- Model
- GA8
- Serial number
- GA8-13-199
- 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 IO-540-K1A5 · 300 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- A68CB9 (octal 51506271)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 23, 2021
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 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 · January 27, 2014
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01138954
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Grant Aviation INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 6420 Kulis Dr
Anchorage, AK 99502
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N521AV links to the rest of the register
- Gippsaero 4 aircraft on the register
- Grant Aviation INC · charter operator
- Lycoming IO-540-K1A5 44 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Grant Aviation INC 32 aircraft in the fleet
- Anchorage, AK 2,527 aircraft registered in this town
- Lake Hood Airport · LHD
- Merrill Field · MRI
- Ted Stevens Anchorage International · ANC
- Bold Airport · A13
- 2 more landing places in town
- Alaska 9,142 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-540-K1A5 38 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-540-K1A5 167 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Nut, missing · 2020-04-27
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N521AV.json.
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The public federal record on N521AV, 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 Grant Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 23, 2021, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 27, 2014, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial GA8-13-199 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N521AV according to the deregistered file. [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 N521AV. 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