Tew William P TEAM ROCKET F1
N5491W is a Tew William P TEAM ROCKET F1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Salt Lake City, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 15, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 19, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Tew William P
- Model
- TEAM ROCKET F1
- Serial number
- 081
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2005
- Kit
- TEAM ROCKET LP F1 ROCKET
- Transponder code
- A6FBEB (octal 51575753)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 15, 2020
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 19, 2005
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00624177
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wheeler Christian Ben
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 4275 E White Way
Salt Lake City, UT 84124-3429 - Co-owners
- Wheeler Angela E
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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
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The public federal record on N5491W, 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 Wheeler Christian Ben, a co-owned, certificate issued September 15, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 19, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 081 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5491W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-160 (serial 28-576, cancelled June 30, 1970). 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]
1 NTSB record under N5491W: Accident on April 23, 2011 at Heber, UT: 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: Tew William P TEAM ROCKET F1 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR11CA206 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data