Eric Vargosko SW-51
N551EV is an Eric Vargosko SW-51, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2024. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Ldg Mustang LLC, an LLC in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 17, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 1, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Eric Vargosko
- Model
- SW-51
- Serial number
- 017
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 916 IS · 160 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2024
- Kit
- SCALEWINGS AIRCRAFT GMBH SW-51
- Transponder code
- A7039A (octal 51601632)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 17, 2024
- Expires
- July 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- June 2, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 1, 2024
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01450984
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ldg Mustang LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 4741 Highway 17 Business
Murrells Inlet, SC 29576-5643
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N551EV, 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 Ldg Mustang LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 17, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 1, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 017 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N551EV 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]
1 NTSB record under N551EV: Accident on April 10, 2026 at Iron Station, NC: serious injuries, minor damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Eric Vargosko SW-51 · operated under 091
On April 10, 2026, about 1732 eastern daylight time, an experimental amateur built SW-51 airplane, N551EV, sustained minor damage when it was involved in an accident near Iron Station, North Carolina. The front seat pilot sustained minor injuries, and the back seat pilot sustained serious injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The front seat pilot and owner reported that a new propeller had been installed on the airplane two days before the accident flight. The morning of the accident flight he was informed by the back seat pilot …
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- 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