Aero Commander 500-A
N444WA is an Aero Commander 500-A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1961. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Wiseman Aviation INC, a corporation in Flagstaff, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 6, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated January 2, 1962.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aero Commander
- Model
- 500-A · all 500-As 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
- 1130-60
- 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 · Cont Motor I0-470 SERIES · 260 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 172 mph
- Transponder code
- A55B6E (octal 51255556)
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 6, 2021
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 12, 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 · January 2, 1962
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00101696
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wiseman Aviation 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
- 2650 West Shamrell Blvd
Flagstaff, AZ 86004
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N444WA 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
- Continental IO-470 series 4,724 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- Wiseman Aviation INC 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Flagstaff, AZ 135 aircraft registered in this town
- Flagstaff Pulliam Airport · FLG
- Arizona 8,434 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 Continental IO-470 series 28 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-470 series 114 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N444WA, 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 Wiseman Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 6, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated January 2, 1962, consistent with the 1961 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1130-60 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N444WA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aero Commander 500-A (serial 1272-95, cancelled February 28, 2017). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N444WA. 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 November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data