American AA-5
N5872L is an American AA-5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 17, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 1, 1972. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- American
- Model
- AA-5 · all AA-5s and related versions
- Serial number
- AA5-0072
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A79292 (octal 51711222)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 17, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 17, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · May 1, 1972
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00271785
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mai David A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1900 Payne Rd
Chattanooga, TN 37421-2551
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 1
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N5872L, 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 Mai David A, an individual, certificate issued September 17, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 1, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA5-0072 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5872L according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 3, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N5872L. 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 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