Aero Commander 500 S
N787RK 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 Epitrop Foundation, a non-citizen corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The FAA lists the registration as "non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports" (certificate issued October 3, 2025). It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 22, 1968.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aero Commander
- Model
- 500 S · all 500 Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 1832-29
- 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
- AAAC08 (octal 52526010)
Registration
- Status
- Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports
- Certificate issued
- October 3, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 31, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 22, 1968
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00643534
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Epitrop Foundation
- Type
- Non-citizen corporation
- Address
- 5305 Limestone Rd Ste 200
Wilmington, DE 19808-1247
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.
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The public federal record on N787RK, 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.
Registration status is "Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 22, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1832-29 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N787RK 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 N787RK. 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