Aero Commander 500-B
N917GT 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 Central Airlines INC, a corporation in Leawood, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 26, 2021 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated November 18, 1960.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aero Commander
- Model
- 500-B · all 500-Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 500B-983-24
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1960
- Cruising speed
- 172 mph
- Transponder code
- ACB154 (octal 53130524)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 26, 2021
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- October 18, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · November 18, 1960
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00861516
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Central Airlines INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 9015 Ensley Ln
Leawood, KS 66206-1778
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N917GT, 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 Central Airlines INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 26, 2021, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated November 18, 1960, consistent with the 1960 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 500B-983-24 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N917GT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aero Commander 500-B (serial 500B-1137-77, cancelled October 7, 2020). 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 N917GT: Accident on October 31, 2013 at Lubbock, TX: 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: Aero Commander 500 - B · operated under 135
The pilot's failure to complete a landing checklist and extend the landing gear, which resulted in a gear-up landing. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's diverted attention to the weather during approach.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN14LA065 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