Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164B
N573AF is a Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Watson Air Farm LLC, an LLC in Thibodaux, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 6, 2014 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated April 25, 1990.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer
- Model
- G-164B · all G-164Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 573B
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 80 mph
- Transponder code
- A75994 (octal 51654624)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 6, 2014
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · April 25, 1990
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00196018
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Watson Air Farm LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 105 Columbia Dr
Thibodaux, LA 70301-8041
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N573AF, 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 Watson Air Farm LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 6, 2014, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 25, 1990, 11 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 573B for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N573AF 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]
1 NTSB record under N573AF: Accident on July 28, 1991 at Donaldsonville, LA: 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 G-164B · operated under 137
THE MECHANICAL FAILURE OF THE PROPELLER BLADE PITCH POSITIONING BOLT. A FACTOR WAS THE LACK OF SUITABLE TERRAIN AVAILABLE FOR THE FORCED LANDING.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW91DRD07 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data