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N153CJ

Cessna 525A

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesAlabama

N153CJ is a Cessna 525A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2003. It has 8 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Birmingham, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 8, 2021 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 21, 2003.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
525A · all 525As and related versions
Serial number
525A0153
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
Power
TurbofanFAA type of engine code 5 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 2 motors · Williams FJ 44 SERIES · 1,900 lb thrust
Seats
8
Year built
2003
Transponder code
A0D58F (octal 50152617)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
November 8, 2021
Expires
November 30, 2028
Last FAA action
June 23, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 21, 2003
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00045609

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Abbey Air INC
Type
Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
Address
1930 Stonegate Dr
Birmingham, AL 35242
Co-owners
Cr/Hc Aviation LLC

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N153CJ, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Abbey Air INC, a co-owned, certificate issued November 8, 2021, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated May 21, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 525A0153 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N153CJ according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N153CJ. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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