Aero Commander 500 S
N741CA is an Aero Commander 500 S, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 7 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 15, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 3, 2020.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aero Commander
- Model
- 500 S · all 500 Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 3191
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming IO-540-E1B5 · 290 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 172 mph
- Transponder code
- A9F674 (octal 52373164)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 15, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 15, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 3, 2020
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00561525
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Harold F Mowery
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 100 S Lewisberry Rd
Mechanicsburg, PA 17055-6027
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N741CA, 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 Harold F Mowery, an individual, certificate issued March 15, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 3, 2020, 46 years after the 1974 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 3191 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N741CA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 421C (serial 421C0899, cancelled August 13, 1996). 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]
1 NTSB record under N741CA: Accident on February 10, 1994 at San Antonio, TX: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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: Cessna 421C · operated under 091
IMPROPER SERVICING OF THE AIRPLANE WITH JET FUEL, WHICH RESULTED IN PREIGNITION AND/OR DETONATION AND SUBSEQUENT FAILURE OF PISTONS IN BOTH ENGINES. A FACTOR RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WAS: THE LACK OF A RESTRICTIVE MATING NOZZLE ON THE REFUELING TRUCK.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW94FA082 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
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