Aero Commander 500-B
N444CA is an Aero Commander 500-B, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1964. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Central Airlines INC, a corporation in Leawood, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 6, 1976 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 27, 1964.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aero Commander
- Model
- 500-B · all 500-Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1458-162
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1964
- Cruising speed
- 172 mph
- Transponder code
- A559AC (octal 51254654)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 6, 1976
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- October 21, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 27, 1964
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00012494
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Central Airlines INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 9015 Ensley Ln
Leawood, KS 66206-1778
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N444CA, 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 Central Airlines INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 6, 1976, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 27, 1964, consistent with the 1964 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1458-162 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N444CA 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]
1 NTSB record under N444CA: Accident on March 17, 2026 at Chesterfield, MO: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Aero Commander 500-B · operated under 135
On March 17, 2026, about 0024 central daylight time, an Aero Commander 500-B airplane, N444CA, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Chesterfield, Missouri. The pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 135 cargo flight. Preliminary ADS-B data revealed that the airplane departed from runway 26L at Spirit of St. Louis Airport (SUS), Chesterfield, Missouri, about 0021:51. The airplane subsequently entered a modified right traffic pattern for the departure runway. The airplane altitudes varied from about 500 ft msl to 850 …
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- 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 August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data