Airplane Factory Llc SPEEDSTAR 850
N5530T is an Airplane Factory Llc SPEEDSTAR 850, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2009. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Speedster LLC, an LLC in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 26, 2022 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated March 9, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Airplane Factory Llc
- Model
- SPEEDSTAR 850
- Serial number
- 001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · Garrett TPE331-6 · 750 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2009
- Transponder code
- A70CFA (octal 51606372)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 26, 2022
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · March 9, 2012
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01025413
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Speedster LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1001 S Main St Ste 49
Kalispell, MT 59901-5635
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N5530T, 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 Speedster LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 26, 2022, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 9, 2012, 3 years after the 2009 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 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5530T was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172E (serial 17251430, cancelled August 22, 2005). 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]
2 NTSB records under N5530T: Accident on May 5, 2001 at Soldotna, AK: serious injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 20, 1987 at Clear, AK: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to refuel the airplane, and subsequent fuel exhaustion. A factor in the accident was an inadvertent stall during an emergency descent/landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data