Meyers MAC-145
N551 is a Meyers MAC-145, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1954. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum, a corporation in Saint Louis, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 21, 2015 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 8, 1981.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Meyers
- Model
- MAC-145 · all MAC-145s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. The Meyers 145: a steel-tube cabin frame under aluminium skins. This is how the Meyers MAC-145 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
- 216
- 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 · Cont Motor IO-360 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1954
- Cruising speed
- 116 mph
- Transponder code
- A70321 (octal 51601441)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 21, 2015
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 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 8, 1981
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00543425
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 14301 Creve Coeur Airport Rd
Saint Louis, MO 63146
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N551 links to the rest of the register
- Meyers MAC-145 14 registered
- Meyers 68 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-360 series 1,853 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum 16 aircraft in the fleet
- Saint Louis, MO 320 aircraft registered in this town
- Missouri 5,815 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Meyers MAC-145 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Meyers MAC-145 1 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Meyers MAC-145 81 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-360 series 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-360 series 41 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Light, disconnected · 2002-01-09
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N551.json.
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The public federal record on N551, 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 Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum, a corporation, certificate issued January 21, 2015, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 8, 1981, 27 years after the 1954 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 216 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N551 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 N551. 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 October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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, October 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data