Gippsaero 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gippsaero Pty Ltd
- Model
- GA8 · all GA8s and related versions
- Serial number
- GA8-12-176
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO 540 SER · 260 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2012
- Transponder code
- ACAE76 (octal 53127166)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 19, 2023
- Expires
- July 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- July 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 7, 2023
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 01413180
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Grant Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 6420 Kulis Dr
Anchorage, AK 99502-1816
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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 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]
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 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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC25LA015 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
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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