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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5A
N9965U is a Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Meridian, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 20, 2018 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 12, 1977. 2 documents are on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership), loan release.
Where is it now Last seen October 15 at 11:25 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman American Avn. Corp.
- Model
- AA-5A · all AA-5As and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. Glued (bonded) aluminium honeycomb rather than rivets. This is how the Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5 Traveler, Cheetah and Tiger family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- AA5A0365
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-E2G · 150 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- ADEC07 (octal 53366007)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 20, 2018
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 12, 1977
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00403330
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Edward Brent M
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 616 W Valentino St
Meridian, ID 83646-4721
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Documents on file 2
Connections how N9965U links to the rest of the register
- Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5 Traveler, Cheetah and Tiger 1,286 registered
- Grumman American Avn. Corp. 1,675 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-320-E2G 33 aircraft with this engine series · 150 hp
- Meridian, ID 150 aircraft registered in this town
- Idaho 4,199 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320-E2G 19 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320-E2G 23 reports since 1995
- Where N9965U is now · Last seen October 15 at 11:25 am.
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The public federal record on N9965U, 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 Edward Brent M, an individual, certificate issued September 20, 2018, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 12, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA5A0365 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9965U according to the deregistered file. [2]
2 documents received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 1, 2026), Loan release (October 2, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N9965U. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data