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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 12, 2026Hughes 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes William J
- Model
- AVENTURA UL
- Serial number
- UL0016
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A777A7 (octal 51673647)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 8, 2017
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- December 9, 2025
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Registered before Jan 31, 2008FAA certificate purpose code 8A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 16, 2007
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00359929
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rieck Brian M
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 472
Junction, TX 76849-0472
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N580TX links to the rest of the register
- Hughes William J 2 aircraft on the register
- Junction, TX 11 aircraft registered in this town
- Kimble County · JCT
- Texas 29,986 aircraft registered
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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]
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data