Gazelle HO-2
N6551 is a Gazelle HO-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1970. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum, a corporation in Rhinebeck, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 12, 1994 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; exhibition, dated June 29, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gazelle
- Model
- HO-2
- Serial number
- 1
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1970
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A8A1C8 (octal 52120710)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 12, 1994
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development; Exhibition · June 29, 1979
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00002686
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 229
Rhinebeck, NY 12572-0229
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N6551, 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 Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum, a corporation, certificate issued December 12, 1994, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 29, 1979, 9 years after the 1970 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 1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6551 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Monocoupe MONOPREP (serial JX-103, cancelled March 1, 1938). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N6551. 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 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
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, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data