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N851DF

Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5B

Valid Georgia

N851DF is a Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Woodstock, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 1, 2011 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 21, 1975. 1 document is on file: loan release.

Aircraft

Maker
Grumman American Avn. Corp.
Model
AA-5B · all AA-5Bs and related versions
Serial number
AA5B-0149
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1975
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
ABAB60 (octal 52725540)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 1, 2011
Expires
November 30, 2027
Last FAA action
April 1, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · October 21, 1975
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00462437

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Foster Gregory S
Type
Co-owned
Address
1102 Arborhill Dr
Woodstock, GA 30189-2391
Co-owners
Foster Eileen B

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Documents on file 1

2026-09-10Loan release

Earlier use of this number 1

1998-04-03Diamond Aircraft DA20-A1 · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N851DF, 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 Foster Gregory S, a co-owned, certificate issued November 1, 2011, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 21, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA5B-0149 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N851DF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Diamond Aircraft DA20-A1 (serial 10161, cancelled April 3, 1998). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Loan release (September 10, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N851DF. 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