Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5A
N863BW is a Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Flying Cheetah LLC, an LLC in Lakeland, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 15, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 24, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman American Avn. Corp.
- Model
- AA-5A · all AA-5As and related versions
- Serial number
- AA5A0566
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- ABDA2A (octal 52755052)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 15, 2020
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · March 24, 1978
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00003352
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Flying Cheetah LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 5211 Bloomfield Blvd
Lakeland, FL 33810-8217
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N863BW, 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 Flying Cheetah LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 15, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 24, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA5A0566 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N863BW 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 N863BW. 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