{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2020-03-03","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-03-15","city":"MECHANICSBURG","country_code":"US","county_code":"041","cruise_speed_mph":172,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41639","engine_horsepower":290,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"IO-540-E1B5","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-03-15","maker":"Aero Commander","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AERO COMMANDER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"0141107","mode_s_code":"52373164","mode_s_hex":"A9F674","model":"500 S","n_number":"N741CA","name":"HAROLD F MOWERY","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"SAN ANTONIO","damage":"DEST","date":"1994-02-10","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"FTW94FA082","probable_cause":"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.","registration":"N741CA","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on February 10, 1994 at San Antonio, TX: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"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.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Harold F Mowery, an individual, certificate issued March 15, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3191 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N741CA: Accident on February 10, 1994 at San Antonio, TX: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":7,"serial_number":"3191","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"PA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"100 S LEWISBERRY RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00561525","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N741CA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1974,"zip":"170556027"}