{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1976-10-26","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2009-09-16","city":"INDEPENDENCE","country_code":"US","county_code":"053","cruise_speed_mph":105,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Loan or lien (security agreement)","doc_type_code":"S/A","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-28"},{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-28"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41508","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-320 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-26","maker":"Grumman American Avn. Corp.","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"GRUMMAN AMERICAN AVN. CORP.","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3960106","mode_s_code":"53336153","mode_s_hex":"ADBC6B","model":"AA-5A","n_number":"N9840U","name":"HEUSSER DAVID G","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"HEUSSER BERYL ANN","plain_english":"N9840U is a Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Independence, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 16, 2009 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 26, 1976. 2 documents are on file: loan or lien (security agreement), bill of sale (evidence of ownership).","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Heusser David G, a co-owned, certificate issued September 16, 2009, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 26, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA5A0240 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N9840U according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 28, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N9840U. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":4,"serial_number":"AA5A0240","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"OR","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"646 MOONEY ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00933670","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N9840U","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1976,"zip":"973519426"}