Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5B
N78GT is a Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Puyallup, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 31, 2009 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 4, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman American Avn. Corp.
- Model
- AA-5B · all AA-5Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- AA5B-0853
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AA8ED5 (octal 52507325)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 31, 2009
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 4, 1978
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00044810
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bennett Wayne M JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 73309
Puyallup, WA 98373-0309
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N78GT, 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 Bennett Wayne M JR, an individual, certificate issued March 31, 2009, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 4, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA5B-0853 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N78GT 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N78GT. 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