Grumman G-73
N98BS is a Grumman G-73, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1947. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Lac Management, a corporation in New York, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 26, 1990 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 19, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- G-73 · all G-73s and related versions
- Serial number
- J-18
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 1947
- Cruising speed
- 165 mph
- Transponder code
- ADA8F5 (octal 53324365)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 26, 1990
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · May 19, 1956
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00341654
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lac Management
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 15 W 36Th St Fl 8
New York, NY 10018-7927
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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N98BS, 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 Lac Management, a corporation, certificate issued October 26, 1990, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 19, 1956, 9 years after the 1947 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial J-18 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N98BS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 152 (serial 15284731, cancelled April 7, 1988). 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 N98BS: Accident on November 27, 1987 at Oliver Springs, TN: fatal, destroyed (1 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: Cessna 152 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL88FA046 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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