Aero Commander 680V
N171AT is an Aero Commander 680V, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1966. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Aloft Aviation Services LLC, a corporation in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 18, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 1, 1966.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aero Commander
- Model
- 680V · all 680Vs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Aero Commander 680 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 1616-49
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Airesearch TPE331 SERIES · 904 hp
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 188 mph
- Transponder code
- A11CF6 (octal 50216366)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 18, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 18, 2024
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 1, 1966
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00471423
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aloft Aviation Services LLC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 500 Ammons Rd Ste 200
Spartanburg, SC 29306-4040
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N171AT links to the rest of the register
- Aero Commander 680 51 registered
- Aero Commander 714 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- AiResearch (Honeywell) TPE331 series 492 aircraft with this engine series · 904 hp
- Aloft Aviation Services LLC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Spartanburg, SC 67 aircraft registered in this town
- Spartanburg Downtown Meml/Simpson Field · SPA
- South Carolina 3,111 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Aero Commander 680 19 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Aero Commander 680 19 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Aero Commander 680 204 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Panel, damaged · 2021-11-04
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The public federal record on N171AT, 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 Aloft Aviation Services LLC, a corporation, certificate issued October 18, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 1, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1616-49 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N171AT according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N171AT. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data