Aero Commander 500 S
N590DR is an Aero Commander 500 S, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 7 seats. It is registered to an individual in St Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 6, 2008 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 5, 1978.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Express Carriers INC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen Wednesday at 11:40 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aero Commander
- Model
- 500 S · all 500 Ss and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Aero Commander 500 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 1817-23
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 172 mph
- Transponder code
- A79DC2 (octal 51716702)
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 6, 2008
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 5, 1978
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00991895
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Richardson Dean A
- 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 9852
St Thomas, VI
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.
Connections how N590DR links to the rest of the register
- Aero Commander 500 163 registered
- Aero Commander 709 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Express Carriers INC · charter operator
- Lycoming TIO-540 series 5,074 aircraft with this engine series · 310 hp
- St Thomas, VI 52 aircraft registered in this town
- U.S. Virgin Islands 91 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Aero Commander 500 1 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Aero Commander 500 11 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming TIO-540 series 41 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming TIO-540 series 363 reports since 1995
- Where N590DR is now · Last seen Wednesday at 11:40 am.
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The public federal record on N590DR, 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 Richardson Dean A, an individual, certificate issued August 6, 2008, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 5, 1978, 10 years after the 1968 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 1817-23 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N590DR 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 N590DR: Accident on July 27, 2018 at Canefield Airoprt: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aero Commander 500 · operated under NUSC
The government of Dominica has notified the NTSB of an accident involving a AERO COMMANDER 500 airplane that occurred on July 27, 2018. The NTSB has appointed a U.S. Accredited Representative to assist the government of Dominica's investigation under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13.All investigative information will be released by the government of Dominica.
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
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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data