American AA-5
N8005W is an American AA-5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Moorhead, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 25, 2006 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 10, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American
- Model
- AA-5 · all AA-5s and related versions
- Serial number
- AA5-0562
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- AAE4F9 (octal 52562371)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 25, 2006
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 10, 1995
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00307328
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bartkowiak John D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3501 Westmoor Cir
Moorhead, MN 56560-6923
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N8005W, 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 Bartkowiak John D, an individual, certificate issued January 25, 2006, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 10, 1995, 21 years after the 1974 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA5-0562 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8005W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-180 (serial 282066, cancelled February 6, 1992). 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 N8005W: Accident on July 17, 1989 at Chippewa Falls, 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: Piper PA-28-180 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL WHILE ATTEMPTING TO LAND IN CROSSWIND CONDITIONS. DURING THE ENSUING ABORTED LANDING, THE PILOT FAILED TO ENSURE ADEQUATE OBSTACLE CLEARANCE AND THE AIRCRAFT'S LEFT WING STRUCK THE WIND SOCK POLE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI89LA137 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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