Aero Commander 500-B
N444CB is an Aero Commander 500-B, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1961. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Central Airlines INC, a corporation in Overland Park, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 19, 2008 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 30, 1961.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Central Air Southwest, Inc., so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen October 26 at 7:08 am.
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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
- 500B-1119-69
- 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
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 172 mph
- Transponder code
- A559AD (octal 51254655)
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 19, 2008
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- October 25, 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 · October 30, 1961
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00002494
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Central Airlines INC
- 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
- 6901 Shawnee Mission Pkwy Ste 117
Overland Park, KS 66202-4081
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 N444CB links to the rest of the register
- Aero Commander 500 163 registered
- Aero Commander 709 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Central Air Southwest, Inc. · charter operator
- Lycoming TIO-540 series 5,073 aircraft with this engine series · 310 hp
- Central Airlines INC 25 aircraft in the fleet
- Overland Park, KS 190 aircraft registered in this town
- Kansas 5,731 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
- Report filed on this aircraft: Stud, broken · 2017-12-31
- Where N444CB is now · Last seen October 26 at 7:08 am.
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The public federal record on N444CB, 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 May 19, 2008, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated October 30, 1961, consistent with the 1961 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 500B-1119-69 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N444CB 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 N444CB: Accident on November 15, 2007 at Kansas City, MO: 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: Aero Commander GA-500-B · operated under 135
The pilot delayed lowering the landing gear in the landing sequence and the main gear were not in the down and locked position upon touchdown.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data