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N6ET

Grumman American Avn. Corp. GA-7

Valid Tennessee

N6ET is a Grumman American Avn. Corp. GA-7, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Knoxville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 25, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 31, 1978.

Aircraft

Maker
Grumman American Avn. Corp.
Model
GA-7 · all GA-7s and related versions
Serial number
GA7-0004
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1978
Transponder code
A7C303 (octal 51741403)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 25, 2024
Expires
May 31, 2031
Last FAA action
May 25, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · August 31, 1978
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00422397

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sumner Gary
Type
Individual
Address
2109 Jones St
Knoxville, TN 37920-1727

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

1990-08-16Piper PA-31-325 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N6ET, 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 Sumner Gary, an individual, certificate issued May 25, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated August 31, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial GA7-0004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N6ET was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-31-325 (serial 317612012, cancelled August 16, 1990). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N6ET: Accident on April 4, 1988 at Orinda, CA: fatal, destroyed (5 fatal). Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

LAX88FA148Accident on April 4, 1988 at Orinda, CA: fatal, destroyed (5 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 31-7612012

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-31-325 · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX88FA148 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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