Aero Commander 500-B
N698R 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 Tsi Disaster Recovery LLC, an LLC in Melbourne, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 26, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 24, 1960.
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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-910-19
- 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 · Cont Motor I0-470 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1960
- Cruising speed
- 172 mph
- Transponder code
- A949E5 (octal 52244745)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 26, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 26, 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 · June 24, 1960
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00820457
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tsi Disaster Recovery LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2323 S Babcock St
Melbourne, FL 32901-5300
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N698R 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
- Continental IO-470 series 4,724 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- Tsi Disaster Recovery LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Melbourne, FL 320 aircraft registered in this town
- Melbourne Orlando International · MLB
- Florida 21,712 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 Continental IO-470 series 28 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-470 series 114 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Turbocharger, malfunctioned · 2003-09-01
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The public federal record on N698R, 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 Tsi Disaster Recovery LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 26, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated June 24, 1960, consistent with the 1960 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 500A-910-19 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N698R 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 N698R. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data