FAA · Type Certificate Data Sheet
TCDS A16EA
True Flight Holdings LLC
Special Airworthiness Information Bulletins (1)
Advisory bulletins on these airframes. Not mandatory like ADs — but operators tracking AD compliance often miss the SAIB on the same component.
- CE-09-37R1 Stabilizer: True Flight (Grumman American) AA-5
Certification basis — 14 CFR
Former holders
- American General Aircraft Holding Co., Inc.\Tiger Aircraft LLC
- American General Aircraft Holding Co., Inc.
Comments
Grumman Tiger
Engineering specs · extracted from TCDS PDF
Surface-extracted from the actual TCDS PDF (regex on the agency's own text). Multi-model TCDS have one set of specs per Model section; we show the union. The linked PDF remains the authoritative source.
Vne
165kt
never exceed
Vno
130kt
max struct cruise
Vfe
104kt
flaps extended
Max gross
850lbs
Seats
2
Fuel
37gal
Oil
2gal
Engines (per TCDS)
- — Lycoming O-320-E2G
- — Lycoming O-230-E2G
- — Lycoming O-360-A4K
Fuel grade 80/87 minimum grade aviation gasoline
Fleet view · 127 registered tails
Engineering specs aggregated from the FAA Aircraft Registry — what every actually-flying tail under this TCDS reports. Median + 10th–90th-percentile range across the active fleet.
Seats
4
n=127
Horsepower
180
n=120
Cruise (kts)
67
67–67
Year of mfr
1972
1971–1974
Engines on the type, by tail count
- LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES 112
- LYCOMING 0-340 SERIES 8
NTSB events
55
across all model variants
Applicable ADs
29
FAA airworthiness directives
Per-tail rate
0.43 events / tail · 0.23 ADs / tail
The TCDS PDF on drs.faa.gov is the authoritative document for design-as-certified weight limits, performance, equipment, AD compliance times, and operating limitations. Open on drs.faa.gov ↗ DRS frequently breaks — when it does, the fleet view above and the cross-links below are usually what you actually need.