Aero Commander 500-B
N6157X is an Aero Commander 500-B, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1960. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Bluesky Geospatial LTD, a non-citizen corporation in North Adams, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 21, 2019 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 30, 1966.
Where is it now Last seen October 18 at 8:43 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aero Commander
- Model
- 500-B · all 500-Bs 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
- 500A-1009-37
- 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 IO-540-B1A5 · 290 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1960
- Cruising speed
- 172 mph
- Transponder code
- A804B4 (octal 52002264)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 21, 2019
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2026
- 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 · December 30, 1966
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00991356
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bluesky Geospatial LTD
- Type
- Non-citizen corporationFAA type of owner code 8 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 808 State Rd
North Adams, MA 01247-3027
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N6157X 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
- Lycoming IO-540-B1A5 4 aircraft with this engine series · 290 hp
- Bluesky Geospatial LTD 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- North Adams, MA 16 aircraft registered in this town
- Harriman-And-West Airport · AQW
- Massachusetts 2,646 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 IO-540-B1A5 34 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-540-B1A5 15 reports since 1995
- Where N6157X is now · Last seen October 18 at 8:43 am.
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The public federal record on N6157X, 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 Bluesky Geospatial LTD, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued November 21, 2019, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 30, 1966, 6 years after the 1960 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 500A-1009-37 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6157X 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N6157X. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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