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N81227

Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5B

Valid Virginia

N81227 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 Grumman Aviation LLC, an LLC in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 25, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 30, 1977.

Aircraft

Maker
Grumman American Avn. Corp.
Model
AA-5B · all AA-5Bs and related versions
Serial number
AA5B0460
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
AB1388 (octal 52611610)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 25, 2023
Expires
April 30, 2030
Last FAA action
April 25, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · March 30, 1977
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00900272

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Grumman Aviation LLC
Type
LLC
Address
2116 Broadacres Ct
Virginia Beach, VA 23453-7331

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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

1952-08-08Fairchild 24W-46 · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N81227, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Grumman Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 25, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 30, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA5B0460 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N81227 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild 24W-46 (serial W46128, cancelled August 8, 1952). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N81227. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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