Cessna 550
N121KM is a Cessna 550, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1981. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Wings By Dkw LLC, an LLC in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 6, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated July 23, 1981.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 550 · all 550s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 550 Citation II family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 550-0273
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbofanFAA type of engine code 5 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · P&W Canada JT15D-4 · 2,500 lb thrust
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A05856 (octal 50054126)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 6, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 6, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 23, 1981
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00541562
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wings By Dkw LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 604 N Enterprise Blvd
Lake Charles, LA 70601-2339
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
Connections how N121KM links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 550 Citation II 500 registered
- Cessna 72,684 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney Canada JT15D-4 357 aircraft with this engine series · 2,500 lb thrust
- Wings By Dkw LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Lake Charles, LA 162 aircraft registered in this town
- Chennault International · CWF
- Lake Charles Regional · LCH
- Louisiana 3,733 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 550 Citation II 24 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 550 Citation II 988 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 550 Citation II 210 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada JT15D-4 4 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N121KM, 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 Wings By Dkw LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 6, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated July 23, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 550-0273 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N121KM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-34-220T (serial 34-33044, cancelled June 9, 2004). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N121KM. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data