Adam Aircraft Industries Inc A500
N511AX is an Adam Aircraft Industries Inc A500, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Active Release Techniques LLC, an LLC in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 19, 2007 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 12, 2007.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Adam Aircraft Industries Inc
- Model
- A500 · all A500s 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. This is how the Adam Aircraft Industries Inc A500 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
- 0011
- 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 TSIO-550-E · 350 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A6653C (octal 51462474)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 19, 2007
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- 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 · September 12, 2007
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00185869
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Active Release Techniques 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
- 9240 Explorer Dr Ste 210
Colorado Springs, CO 80920-5006
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N511AX links to the rest of the register
- Adam Aircraft Industries Inc A500 5 registered
- Adam Aircraft Industries Inc 5 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental TSIO-550-E 46 aircraft with this engine series · 350 hp
- Active Release Techniques LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Colorado Springs, CO 557 aircraft registered in this town
- City Of Colorado Springs Municipal · COS
- Meadow Lake Airport · FLY
- Colorado 7,485 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Adam Aircraft Industries Inc A500 3 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Adam Aircraft Industries Inc A500 2 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Adam Aircraft Industries Inc A500 40 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental TSIO-550-E 17 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental TSIO-550-E 12 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N511AX.json.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N511AX, 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 Active Release Techniques LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 19, 2007, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 12, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0011 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N511AX 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 N511AX. 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 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data