This Aero Commander has 8,000 hours on the airframe and 1,000 hours on each of its engines. Its panel features a Garmin G600 PFD/MFD and a traditional stack of gyro- and pressure-driven avionics.

This 1960 Aero Commander 500 has 3,798 hours on the airframe, 987 hours since major overhaul on each of its Lycoming IO-540 engines, and 26 hours on its propellers.

The aircraft he had been piloting was an Aero Commander 500. Deputy Trevor Pike transported Barney to the Venture Out Resort on Cudjoe Key where paramedics were waiting.