Icon Aircraft Inc A5
N497BA is an Icon Aircraft Inc A5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2023. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Petry Aviation LLC, an LLC in Rockford, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 12, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated August 22, 2023.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Icon Aircraft Inc
- Model
- A5 · all A5s and related versions
- Built of
- compositeThe airframe is composite: carbon fibre or glass fibre set in resin, moulded in large pieces with few joints, which gives smooth shapes but needs different inspection and repair methods from metal. A carbon-fibre amphibian. This is how the Icon Aircraft Inc A5 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
- 00197
- 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
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912 IS · 100 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A62A33 (octal 51425063)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 12, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 13, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Light sportFAA airworthiness class code 9 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · AirplaneFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 22, 2023
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01415614
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Petry Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 7210 e State St
Rockford, IL 61108-2622
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N497BA links to the rest of the register
- Icon Aircraft Inc A5 202 registered
- Icon Aircraft Inc 202 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 912 IS 878 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Petry Aviation LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Rockford, IL 87 aircraft registered in this town
- Cottonwood Airport · 1C8
- Illinois 8,069 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N497BA, 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 Petry Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 12, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated August 22, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 00197 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N497BA 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 N497BA. 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