Cessna 501
N123PL is a Cessna 501, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1982. It has 8 seats. It is registered to 4-S Aviation LLC, an LLC in Clovis, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 19, 2019 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 30, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 501 · all 501s and related versions
- Serial number
- 501-0234
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P&W Canada JT15D-1A · 2,200 lb thrust
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1982
- Transponder code
- A06027 (octal 50060047)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 19, 2019
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 30, 1998
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00920987
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- 4-S Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 920 Mitchell St
Clovis, NM 88101-5816
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N123PL, 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 4-S Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 19, 2019, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 30, 1998, 16 years after the 1982 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. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 501-0234 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N123PL was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 (serial 0057, cancelled March 16, 1988). 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]
1 NTSB record under N123PL: Accident on November 8, 1987 at San Luis Obispo, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Robinson R-22 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data