{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1975-12-14","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2006-06-09","city":"SAN JOSE","country_code":"US","county_code":"085","cruise_speed_mph":105,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41514","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O&VO-360 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-02","maker":"Grumman American Avn. Corp.","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"GRUMMAN AMERICAN AVN. CORP.","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3960105","mode_s_code":"52376536","mode_s_hex":"A9FD5E","model":"AA-5B","n_number":"N74270","name":"R & D BENNETT LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"San Jose","damage":"SUBS","date":"2004-04-10","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"LAX04LA184","probable_cause":"the pilot's encounter with jet blast effects.  Factors in the accident were the pilots' inadequate situational awareness of the potential for the jet blast encounter after hearing the Global Express airplane on the frequency call ready for taxi, and, the ground controller's failure to issue a safety advisory.","registration":"N74270","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on April 10, 2004 at San Jose, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N74270 is a Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 4 seats. It is registered to R & D Bennett LLC, an LLC in San Jose, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 9, 2006 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 14, 1975.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to R & D Bennett LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 9, 2006, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 14, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA5B-0178 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N74270 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bellanca 14-13 (serial 1383, cancelled December 7, 1955). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N74270: Accident on April 10, 2004 at San Jose, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":4,"serial_number":"AA5B-0178","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"430 N 17TH ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00872457","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N74270","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1975,"zip":"951121732"}