Gulfstream American Corp AA-5B
N55VL 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 an individual in Brightwaters, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 14, 2020 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 11, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gulfstream American Corp
- Model
- AA-5B · all AA-5Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- AA5B1065
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1979
- Transponder code
- A6FEF8 (octal 51577370)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 14, 2020
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · January 11, 1979
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00212794
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Darian Alexander L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 553 Brooklyn Blvd
Brightwaters, NY 11718-1028
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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N55VL, 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 Darian Alexander L, an individual, certificate issued May 14, 2020, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated January 11, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA5B1065 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N55VL was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Gulfstream American Corp AA-5B (serial AA5B1064, cancelled November 23, 1993). 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 N55VL: Accident on September 18, 1993 at Aurora, IL: 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 AA5B · operated under 091
the fatigue failure and separation of a portion of propeller blade during cruise flight. Related factors are the damage to the flat face of the blade, and inadequate maintenance inspection of the propeller.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI93LA365 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