American Aviation AA-1A
N9439L is an American Aviation AA-1A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Boca Raton, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 20, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 23, 1971.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Aviation
- Model
- AA-1A · all AA-1As and related versions
- Serial number
- AA1A-0239
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1971
- Cruising speed
- 84 mph
- Transponder code
- AD1BEB (octal 53215753)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 20, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 20, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 23, 1971
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00630121
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cheung Patrick
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 22056 Greenwich Ct W
Boca Raton, FL 33428-4238
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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 N9439L, 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 Cheung Patrick, an individual, certificate issued November 20, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 23, 1971, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA1A-0239 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9439L 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 N9439L: Accident on November 26, 2025 at High Rolls, NM: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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 Aviation AA-1A · operated under 091
On November 26, 2025, about 1145 mountain standard time, an American Aviation AA-1A airplane, N9439L was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The pilot and passenger were fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The pilot had recently purchased the airplane and received his private pilot certificate about one month prior to the accident. On Nov 24, 2025, he began a long cross-country flight that departed Palm Beach County Park Airport (LNA), Palm Springs, Florida, about 1310. He flew to s…
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- 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