American Aviation AA-1A
N6416L is an American Aviation AA-1A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Crosby, Minnesota. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated June 15, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Aviation
- Model
- AA-1A · all AA-1As and related versions
- Serial number
- AA1A-0416
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 84 mph
- Transponder code
- A86C27 (octal 52066047)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pending
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- August 14, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · June 15, 1972
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00912226
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 201 1St St SE
Crosby, MN 56441-1611
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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 N6416L, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated June 15, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA1A-0416 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6416L 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 N6416L: Accident on May 30, 2026 at Amery, WI: minor 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: American Aviation AA-1A · operated under 091
On May 30, 2026, about 1113 central daylight time, a Grumman AA-1A airplane, N6416L, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Amery, Wisconsin. The pilot sustained minor injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 positioning flight. The pilot reported that while en route on a positioning flight, he felt a sudden violent shaking of the airframe with a partial loss of engine power. He attempted to correct the power loss by applying carburetor heat, turning on the fuel pump, and switching fuel tanks; however, the shaking continu…
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- 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