Aero Commander 500-B
N520DR 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 Dmgf LLC, an LLC in Bertram, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 18, 2019 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a special flight permit airworthiness certificate for operation in excess of maximum certificated, dated March 7, 2014.
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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
- 1116-66
- 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 IO-540-E1A5 · 290 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 172 mph
- Transponder code
- A68949 (octal 51504511)
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 18, 2019
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Special flight permitFAA airworthiness class code 8 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Operation in excess of maximum certificatedFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 7, 2014
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00075030
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dmgf 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
- 965 County Road 210A
Bertram, TX 78605-3590
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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 N520DR 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
- Lycoming IO-540-E1A5 4 aircraft with this engine series · 290 hp
- Dmgf LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Bertram, TX 27 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,976 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 IO-540-E1A5 37 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-540-E1A5 38 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N520DR, 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 Dmgf LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 18, 2019, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 7, 2014, 53 years after the 1961 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1116-66 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N520DR was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cirrus Design Corp SR20 (serial 1491, cancelled November 10, 2008). 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 N520DR. 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 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 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 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data