Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5B
N81382 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 Costa Mesa, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 14, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 31, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman American Avn. Corp.
- Model
- AA-5B · all AA-5Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- AA5B0519
- 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
- AB180C (octal 52614014)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 14, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 14, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · May 31, 1977
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00180232
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schear Brian
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 2348
Costa Mesa, CA 92628-2348
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N81382, 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 Schear Brian, an individual, certificate issued July 14, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 31, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA5B0519 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N81382 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]
1 NTSB record under N81382: Accident on July 11, 1982 at Corvallis, OR: no 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: Grumman AA-5B · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA82DA108 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data