Aero Commander 500
N8498C is an Aero Commander 500, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1960. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Air Margarita, a corporation in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 26, 2012 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated December 30, 1959.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aero Commander
- Model
- 500 · all 500s and related versions
- Serial number
- 848
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1960
- Cruising speed
- 163 mph
- Transponder code
- ABA4BB (octal 52722273)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 26, 2012
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · December 30, 1959
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00112831
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air Margarita
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 559 Calle Cuevillas Apt 2A
San Juan, PR 00907-2526
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 N8498C, 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 Air Margarita, a corporation, certificate issued March 26, 2012, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated December 30, 1959, consistent with the 1960 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 848 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8498C 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]
1 NTSB record under N8498C: Accident on March 12, 2005 at San Juan, PR: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Rockwell Aero Commander 500 · operated under 091
The failure of the pilot to follow the emergency checklist and his inadvertent operation of the airplane with known discrepancies resulting in landing overrun and on-ground collision with a ditch during the landing roll.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA05LA079 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data