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Grumman American AA-5
🇺🇸 United States ·first flew 1970· four-seat cabin monoplane
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Grumman.aa-5.traveller.g-bezf.arp: Arpingstone· Public domain
- 2. Grumman American AA-5 Compton Abbas 30th June 2013 (9215815185): Ian Kirk from Broadstone, Dorset, UK· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The Grumman American AA-5 series is a family of American all-metal, four-seat, light aircraft used for touring and training. The line includes the original American Aviation AA-5 Traveler, the Grumman American AA-5 Traveler, AA-5A Cheetah, and AA-5B Tiger, the Gulfstream American AA-5A Cheetah and AA-5B Tiger, the American General AG-5B Tiger, and the Tiger Aircraft AG-5B Tiger.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 9.6 m wingspan
base stats
Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).
fun facts
- First flew 56 years ago, in 1970.
- Top speed is 2.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 9.6 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Range of 1,261 km: 7× Amsterdam to Brussels.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1970
- introduced
- 1971
- number built
- 3,282
- role
- four-seat cabin monoplane
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- makers
- American Aviation
- engines
- 1× Lycoming O-360-A4K
- length
- 6.7 m
- wingspan
- 9.6 m
- height
- 2.4 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,089 kg
- top speed
- 274 km/h
- cruise speed
- 265 km/h
- range
- 1,261 km
- ceiling
- 4,206 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1455248, Wikipedia: Grumman American AA-5 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.