Cessna T-50
N578EK is a Cessna T-50, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1942. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Brackettville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 24, 1987 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 20, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- T-50 · all T-50s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2581
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Jacobs L4 /R755-7 · 245 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1942
- Cruising speed
- 131 mph
- Transponder code
- A76C8F (octal 51666217)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 24, 1987
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 20, 1957
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00021515
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Davis Lloyd L JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 527
Brackettville, TX 78832-0527
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.
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The public federal record on N578EK, 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 Davis Lloyd L JR, an individual, certificate issued July 24, 1987, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 20, 1957, 15 years after the 1942 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 2581 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N578EK 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 N578EK: Accident on March 4, 1990 at Brackettville, TX: minor 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna T50-A17 · operated under 091
AN ENGINE FAILURE CAUSED BY A MALFUNCTIONING CARBURETOR AND THE PILOT'S MISJUDGING HIS OBSTACLE CLEARANCE WHICH RESULTED IN A WIRE STRIKE WHILE MANEUVERING TO LAND. FACTORS IN THE ACCIDENT WERE THE UNCOMMANDED DEPLOYMENT OF CARBURETOR HEAT ON BOTH ENGINES, AN INOPERATIVE GEAR RETRACTION SYSTEM, AND A PROPELLER SYSTEM WHICH COULD NOT BE FEATHERED.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW90LA078 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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