{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1972-08-08","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-08-17","city":"FLOWER MOUND","country_code":"US","county_code":"121","cruise_speed_mph":172,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41533","engine_horsepower":310,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"TI0-540 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-06-18","maker":"Aero Commander","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AERO COMMANDER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"0141107","mode_s_code":"53131771","mode_s_hex":"ACB3F9","model":"500 S","n_number":"N9177","name":"CHAFFIN CHRISTOPHER","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"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.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Chaffin Christopher, an individual, certificate issued August 17, 2021, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 8, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3125 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N9177. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":7,"serial_number":"3125","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2608 BEL AIR LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00190911","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N9177","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1972,"zip":"750224523"}