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N9779U

Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5A

N9779U is a Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hanover, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 21, 2012 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated June 23, 1976.

Aircraft

Maker
Grumman American Avn. Corp.
Model
AA-5A · all AA-5As and related versions
Serial number
AA5A-0179
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-E2G · 150 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1976
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
ADA14C (octal 53320514)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 21, 2012
Expires
February 29, 2028
Last FAA action
April 21, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · June 23, 1976
FAA region
New England
FAA record id
00953880

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Zauner Paul F
Type
Individual
Address
21 Clark Cir
Hanover, MA 02339-2434

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N9779U, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Zauner Paul F, an individual, certificate issued February 21, 2012, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated June 23, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA5A-0179 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N9779U according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N9779U. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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