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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5B
N74127 is a Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lafayette, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 9, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 27, 1975.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman American Avn. Corp.
- Model
- AA-5B · all AA-5Bs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe 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 Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5 Traveler, Cheetah and Tiger 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
- AA5B-0147
- 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 O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A9F8FF (octal 52374377)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 9, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- December 9, 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 · October 27, 1975
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00282427
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Richards Michael W
- 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
- 9431 Travelair Way
Lafayette, IN 47909-8596
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N74127 links to the rest of the register
- Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5 Traveler, Cheetah and Tiger 1,286 registered
- Grumman American Avn. Corp. 1,675 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360 / VO-360 series 11,930 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Lafayette, IN 86 aircraft registered in this town
- Purdue University Airport · LAF
- Indiana 5,700 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N74127, 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 Richards Michael W, an individual, certificate issued December 9, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 27, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA5B-0147 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N74127 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Fairchild C-82A (serial 45-57807, cancelled February 25, 1965); Fairchild 24R-46A (serial 916, cancelled January 30, 1951). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N74127. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data