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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aero Commander
- Model
- 500 S · all 500 Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 1817-23
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 172 mph
- Transponder code
- A79DC2 (octal 51716702)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 6, 2008
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 5, 1978
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00991895
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Richardson Dean A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 9852
St Thomas, VI
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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 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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA18WA590 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