Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-1B
N9858L is a Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-1B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rector, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 5, 2015 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 26, 1974.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman American Avn. Corp.
- Model
- AA-1B · all AA-1Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- AA1B-0458
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 100 mph
- Transponder code
- ADC132 (octal 53340462)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 5, 2015
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 26, 1974
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00923660
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ankney Gary L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2184 State Route 381 Rd
Rector, PA 15677-1610
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N9858L, 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 Ankney Gary L, an individual, certificate issued December 5, 2015, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 26, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA1B-0458 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9858L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 320B (serial 320B0058, cancelled July 2, 1964). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N9858L: Accident on August 22, 2012 at Bedford, PA: 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: Grumman American Avn. CORP. AA-1B · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain control of the airplane during the landing and subsequent go-around. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's failure to shutoff the carburetor heat during the attempted go-around and the weight at which the airplane was being operated.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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