Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164B
N8961H is a Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to O'Brien'S Flying Service INC, a corporation in Iowa, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 20, 2016 and expires on June 30, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer
- Model
- G-164B · all G-164Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 3B
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 80 mph
- Transponder code
- AC5E21 (octal 53057041)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 20, 2016
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00361591
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- O'Brien'S Flying Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box Drawer 607
Iowa, LA 70647
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.
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The public federal record on N8961H, 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 O'Brien'S Flying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 20, 2016, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3B for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8961H 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 N8961H: Accident on August 9, 1984 at Tallulah, LA: no injuries, destroyed. 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 G-164B · operated under 137
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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