Aero Commander 500-B
N194Z is an Aero Commander 500-B, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1965. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Usda Forest Service Fepp, a government body in Malvern, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 17, 1985 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 29, 1965.
Where is it now Last seen Thursday at 7:14 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aero Commander
- Model
- 500-B · all 500-Bs 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 500 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
- 1510-182
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 172 mph
- Transponder code
- A17946 (octal 50274506)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 17, 1985
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- 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 · March 29, 1965
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00052940
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Usda Forest Service Fepp
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 198 Airport Rd
Malvern, AR 72104-6052 - Co-owners
- Ada Forestry Division
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.
Connections how N194Z links to the rest of the register
- Aero Commander 500 168 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
- Lycoming TIO-540 series 5,077 aircraft with this engine series · 310 hp
- Usda Forest Service Fepp 108 aircraft in the fleet
- Malvern, AR 19 aircraft registered in this town
- Malvern Municipal · M78
- Arkansas 3,493 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Aero Commander 500 1 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Aero Commander 500 11 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming TIO-540 series 41 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming TIO-540 series 363 reports since 1995
- Where N194Z is now · Last seen Thursday at 7:14 pm.
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The public federal record on N194Z, 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 Usda Forest Service Fepp, a government body, certificate issued May 17, 1985, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 29, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1510-182 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N194Z 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 N194Z. 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