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N5547B

Air Creation TWIN 503SL

Valid Illinois

N5547B is an Air Creation TWIN 503SL, a weight-shift aircraft with a two-stroke engine, built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Peoria, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 15, 2008 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated December 20, 2007.

Aircraft

Maker
Air Creation
Model
TWIN 503SL
Serial number
T00043
Type
Weight-shift control
Power
Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503 SERIES · 52 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1998
Transponder code
A71196 (octal 51610626)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 15, 2008
Expires
April 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 5, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · December 20, 2007
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00409209

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Cox David R
Type
Individual
Address
921 W Thrush Ave
Peoria, IL 61604-3351

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

2004-06-30Cessna 182 · Sale reported

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N5547B, 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 Cox David R, an individual, certificate issued September 15, 2008, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 20, 2007, 9 years after the 1998 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial T00043 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5547B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182 (serial 33547, cancelled June 30, 2004). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

2 NTSB records under N5547B: Accident on September 13, 2003 at Challis, ID: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Accident on May 20, 1983 at Riverside, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 2

SEA03LA190Accident on September 13, 2003 at Challis, ID: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 33547

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 182 · operated under 091

The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from trees while maneuvering. Factors include mountainous terrain and trees.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA03LA190 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

LAX83LA238Accident on May 20, 1983 at Riverside, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 33547

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 182 · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX83LA238 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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