Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5A
N9897U is a Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Douglas, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 24, 2018 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 17, 1977. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman American Avn. Corp.
- Model
- AA-5A · all AA-5As and related versions
- Serial number
- AA5A0297
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- ADCFF3 (octal 53347763)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 24, 2018
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · January 17, 1977
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00803560
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bellenoit David M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9 Bowen Ct
Douglas, MA 01516
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 1
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N9897U, 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 Bellenoit David M, an individual, certificate issued April 24, 2018, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA5A0297 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9897U according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 29, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N9897U. 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