Eclipse Aviation Corp EA500
N117EA is an Eclipse Aviation Corp EA500, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Cordite INC Trustee, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 25, 2008 and expires on May 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Eclipse Aviation Corp
- Model
- EA500 · all EA500s and related versions
- Serial number
- 000104
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A04699 (octal 50043231)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 25, 2008
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00440399
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cordite INC Trustee
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1013 Centre Rd Ste 403-A
Wilmington, DE 19805-1270
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N117EA, 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 Cordite INC Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued January 25, 2008, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 000104 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N117EA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 441 (serial 4410191, cancelled May 11, 1994). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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. [3]
1 NTSB record under N117EA: Accident on November 30, 1986 at Erie, PA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 441 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data