American General Acft Corp AG5B
N897GA is an American General Acft Corp AG5B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1991. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Dorr, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 15, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 10, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American General Acft Corp
- Model
- AG5B · all AG5Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 10076
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A4K · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1991
- Transponder code
- AC5FEC (octal 53057754)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 15, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 10, 2009
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00585561
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pruim Bradley
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2769 140Th Ave
Dorr, MI 49323-9719
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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 N897GA, 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 Pruim Bradley, an individual, certificate issued September 15, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 10, 2009, 18 years after the 1991 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 10076 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N897GA 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 N897GA: Accident on January 12, 2013 at Ankeny, IA: 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: American General Acft CORP AG5B · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain a proper glide path to the runway in gusty wind conditions and his failure to maintain clearance from obstructions during the subsequent go-around. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's improper interior lighting configuration.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN13CA133 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
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