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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5B
N801X is a Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Mississippi State University, a government body in Starkville, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 15, 2011 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 28, 2019.
Where is it now Last seen October 16 at 2:14 pm.
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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-0001
- 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-360-A4K · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AAE7A1 (octal 52563641)
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 15, 2011
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- 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 · March 28, 2019
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00680692
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mississippi State University (university or college with a flight programme: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 114 Airport Rd
Starkville, MS 39759-9678 - Co-owners
- Raspet Flight Research Laboratory
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N801X links to the rest of the register
- Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5 Traveler, Cheetah and Tiger 1,286 registered
- Grumman American Avn. Corp. 1,676 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360-A4K 44 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Mississippi State University 11 aircraft in the fleet
- Starkville, MS 68 aircraft registered in this town
- George M Bryan Airport · STF
- Oktibbeha Airport · M51
- Mississippi 2,599 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-360-A4K 18 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-360-A4K 58 reports since 1995
- Where N801X is now · Last seen October 16 at 2:14 pm.
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The public federal record on N801X, 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 Mississippi State University, a government body, certificate issued December 15, 2011, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 28, 2019, 45 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 AA5B-0001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N801X 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 N801X. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data