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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Gippsaero Pty Ltd GA8
N916RK is a Gippsaero Pty Ltd GA8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2012. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Grant Aviation INC, a corporation in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 19, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 7, 2023. 1 document is on file: loan release.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Gippsaero Pty Ltd
- Model
- GA8 · all GA8s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Gippsaero Pty Ltd GA8 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- GA8-12-176
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming IO 540 SER · 260 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2012
- Transponder code
- ACAE76 (octal 53127166)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 19, 2023
- Expires
- July 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- July 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 7, 2023
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01413180
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Grant Aviation INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 6420 Kulis Dr
Anchorage, AK 99502-1816
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 1
Connections how N916RK links to the rest of the register
- Gippsaero Pty Ltd GA8 32 registered
- Gippsaero Pty Ltd 32 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-540 series 4,223 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Grant Aviation INC 32 aircraft in the fleet
- Anchorage, AK 2,528 aircraft registered in this town
- Lake Hood Airport · LHD
- Merrill Field · MRI
- Ted Stevens Anchorage International · ANC
- Bold Airport · A13
- 2 more landing places in town
- Alaska 9,142 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Gippsaero Pty Ltd GA8 14 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Gippsaero Pty Ltd GA8 8 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Gippsaero Pty Ltd GA8 51 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-540 series 50 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-540 series 316 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N916RK, 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 Grant Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 19, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 7, 2023, 11 years after the 2012 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 GA8-12-176 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N916RK according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Loan release (November 5, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N916RK: Accident on January 4, 2025 at Nightmute, AK: 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: Gippsaero PTY LTD GA8 · operated under 135
The pilot’s loss of directional control while taxiing in gusting wind conditions.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data