Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5A
N9840U 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 co-owned owners in Independence, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 16, 2009 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 26, 1976. 2 documents are on file: loan or lien (security agreement), bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman American Avn. Corp.
- Model
- AA-5A · all AA-5As and related versions
- Serial number
- AA5A0240
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- ADBC6B (octal 53336153)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 16, 2009
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · October 26, 1976
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00933670
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Heusser David G
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 646 Mooney St
Independence, OR 97351-9426 - Co-owners
- Heusser Beryl Ann
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 2
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The public federal record on N9840U, 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 Heusser David G, a co-owned, certificate issued September 16, 2009, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 26, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA5A0240 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9840U according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 28, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N9840U. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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