Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5B
N74270 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 R & D Bennett LLC, an LLC in San Jose, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 9, 2006 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 14, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman American Avn. Corp.
- Model
- AA-5B · all AA-5Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- AA5B-0178
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A9FD5E (octal 52376536)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 9, 2006
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 14, 1975
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00872457
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- R & D Bennett LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 430 N 17Th St
San Jose, CA 95112-1732
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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 1
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The public federal record on N74270, 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 R & D Bennett LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 9, 2006, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 14, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA5B-0178 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N74270 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bellanca 14-13 (serial 1383, cancelled December 7, 1955). 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]
1 NTSB record under N74270: Accident on April 10, 2004 at San Jose, CA: 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 American AA-5B · operated under 091
the pilot's encounter with jet blast effects. Factors in the accident were the pilots' inadequate situational awareness of the potential for the jet blast encounter after hearing the Global Express airplane on the frequency call ready for taxi, and, the ground controller's failure to issue a safety advisory.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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