Aero Commander 500 S
N9177 is an Aero Commander 500 S, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 7 seats. It is registered to an individual in Flower Mound, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 17, 2021 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 8, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aero Commander
- Model
- 500 S · all 500 Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 3125
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 172 mph
- Transponder code
- ACB3F9 (octal 53131771)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 17, 2021
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 18, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 8, 1972
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00190911
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Chaffin Christopher
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2608 Bel Air Ln
Flower Mound, TX 75022-4523
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 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N9177, 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 Chaffin Christopher, an individual, certificate issued August 17, 2021, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 8, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3125 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9177 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Aeromarine-Klemm L-26-A (serial 10, cancelled March 31, 1948); Bikle T6 (serial 6, cancelled date not given). 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 N9177. 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data