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A American AA-1, the same model family as N5631L
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 5, 2026
N5631L

American AA-1

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesMaryland

N5631L is an American AA-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Centreville, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 22, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 12, 1968.

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Aircraft

Maker
American
Model
AA-1 · all AA-1s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The 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 American AA-1 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
AA1-0031
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 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
108 mph
Transponder code
A73495 (octal 51632225)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
November 22, 2025
Expires
November 30, 2032
Last FAA action
November 22, 2025
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 · December 12, 1968
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00350256

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
King Michael Wayne
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
121 Quail Run Dr
Centreville, MD 21617-2300

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N5631L links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Place
  • Centreville, MD 9 aircraft registered in this town
  • Maryland 2,351 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

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Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N5631L, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to King Michael Wayne, an individual, certificate issued November 22, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA1-0031 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5631L according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N5631L. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data