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A Cessna 501 Citation I/SP, the same model family as N18HC
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N18HC

Cessna 501

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesNorth Carolina

N18HC is a Cessna 501, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1981. It has 8 seats. It is registered to N4Bzjp LLC, an LLC in Asheville, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 19, 2026 and expires on October 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 8, 1981.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
501 · all 501s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 501 Citation I/SP 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
501-0223
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-1 · 2,200 lb thrust
Seats
8
Year built
1981
Transponder code
A13F05 (octal 50237405)

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 19, 2026
Expires
October 31, 2033
Last FAA action
October 19, 2026
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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 8, 1981
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00642650

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
N4Bzjp 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
28 Beadle Ln
Asheville, NC 28803-8907

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N18HC links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
  • N4Bzjp LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
Place

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N18HC.json.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N18HC, 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 N4Bzjp LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 19, 2026, expires October 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated October 8, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 501-0223 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N18HC 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 N18HC. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data