Aero Commander 500Aero Commander 500 airplane model. The Aero Commander 500 family is a series of light twin piston engined and turboprop aircraft originally built by the Aero Design and Engineering Company in the late 1940s, renamed the Aero Commander company in 1950, and a division of Rockwell International from 1965. The initial production version was the Aero Commander 520. Piston engined versions manufactured after 1967 are known as the Shrike Commander. Scale 1