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A Maule M-7, the same model family as N5500E
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 9, 2026
N5500E

Maule M-7-260C

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesTexas

N5500E is a Maule M-7-260C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Allen Aviation LLC, an LLC in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 10, 2010 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 23, 2001.

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Aircraft

Maker
Maule
Model
M-7-260C · all M-7-260Cs and related versions
Built of
steel tube and fabric
The fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. Welded steel-tube fuselage under fabric; metal wing structure. This is how the Maule M-7 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
30026C
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
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
5
Year built
2001
Transponder code
A701C8 (octal 51600710)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
September 10, 2010
Expires
April 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 5, 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 · March 23, 2001
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00763914

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Allen 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
6017 Memorial Dr Unit 502
Houston, TX 77007-7002

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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

1982-02-26Cessna 320A · Valid registration

Connections how N5500E links to the rest of the register

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Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N5500E, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Allen Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 10, 2010, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated March 23, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30026C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5500E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 320A (serial 320A0001, cancelled February 26, 1982). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N5500E. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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