Cessna S550
N163J is a Cessna S550, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1987. It has 8 seats. It is registered to N163J LLC, an LLC in Smithfield, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 20, 2017 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 27, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- S550 · all S550s and related versions
- Serial number
- S550-0122
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P&W Canada JT15D-4 · 2,500 lb thrust
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1987
- Transponder code
- A0FD9B (octal 50176633)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 20, 2017
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · May 27, 1993
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00584632
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- N163J LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3441 Swift Creek Rd
Smithfield, NC 27577-6902
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 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N163J, 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 N163J LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 20, 2017, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 27, 1993, 6 years after the 1987 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 S550-0122 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N163J was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Jenkins Harry Tarleton Jr LONG EZ (serial 1135, cancelled March 28, 1997); Douglas DC3C-S1C3G (serial 19402, cancelled July 8, 1970). 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 N163J: Accident on August 3, 1995 at Prescott, AZ: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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: Jenkins LONG E-Z · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to properly lean the engine for best power, his premature rotation of an over gross aircraft on an uphill runway, and his delay in aborting the takeoff.
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