Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5B
N81181 is a Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sacramento, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 2, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 5, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman American Avn. Corp.
- Model
- AA-5B · all AA-5Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- AA5B0449
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AB109D (octal 52610235)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 2, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 2, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · March 5, 1977
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00040302
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Launey Richard
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1912 Richmond St
Sacramento, CA 95825-0432
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N81181, 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 Launey Richard, an individual, certificate issued January 2, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 5, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA5B0449 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N81181 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Funk B85C (serial 311, cancelled May 13, 1953). 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 N81181. 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