Hughes William J AVENTURA UL
N580TX is a Hughes William J AVENTURA UL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 1997. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Junction, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 8, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated October 16, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes William J
- Model
- AVENTURA UL
- Serial number
- UL0016
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A777A7 (octal 51673647)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 8, 2017
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- December 9, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · October 16, 2007
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00359929
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rieck Brian M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 472
Junction, TX 76849-0472
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 N580TX, 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 Rieck Brian M, an individual, certificate issued August 8, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 16, 2007, 10 years after the 1997 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 UL0016 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N580TX 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 N580TX: Accident on April 4, 2017 at Garden Ridge, TX: serious 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: Aero Adventure Aventura UL · operated under 091
The total loss of engine power for reasons that could not be determined based on the available evidence.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN17LA149 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