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N4079X

Aero Commander 100-180

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesTexas

N4079X is an Aero Commander 100-180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1970. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Grapevine, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 8, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 10, 1970.

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Aircraft

Maker
Aero Commander
Model
100-180 · all 100-180s and related versions
Serial number
5179
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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, 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
4
Year built
1970
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A4CA4B (octal 51145113)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
January 8, 2024
Expires
January 31, 2031
Last FAA action
September 9, 2026
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 · April 10, 1970
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00181264

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Richardson Scott
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
444 e Dallas Rd Apt 2126
Grapevine, TX 76051-1152

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N4079X links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Place
  • Grapevine, TX 77 aircraft registered in this town
  • Texas 29,966 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

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The public federal record on N4079X, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Richardson Scott, an individual, certificate issued January 8, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated April 10, 1970, consistent with the 1970 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5179 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N4079X according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N4079X. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data