Textron Aviation Inc 560XL
N18QS is a Textron Aviation Inc 560XL, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2026. It has 13 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 17, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated August 3, 2026. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of NetJets Aviation, Inc., so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen October 15 at 12:42 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- Model
- 560XL · all 560XLs 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 560 Citation V, Ultra, Encore and Excel 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
- 560-6515
- 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 PW545 SER · 3,952 lb thrust
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 13
- Year built
- 2026
- Transponder code
- A13FC2 (octal 50237702)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 17, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 17, 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 · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 3, 2026
- FAA region
- —
- Ownership
- Fractional
- FAA record id
- 01555268
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
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 1
Connections how N18QS links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 560 Citation V, Ultra, Encore and Excel 1,344 registered
- Textron Aviation Inc 4,425 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- NetJets Aviation, Inc. · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PW545 series 287 aircraft with this engine series · 3,952 lb thrust
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 560 Citation V, Ultra, Encore and Excel 38 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 560 Citation V, Ultra, Encore and Excel 5,846 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 560 Citation V, Ultra, Encore and Excel 319 supplemental type certificates
- Where N18QS is now · Last seen October 15 at 12:42 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N18QS.json.
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The public federal record on N18QS, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, a co-owned, certificate issued August 17, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. Fractional ownership is recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated August 3, 2026, consistent with the 2026 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 560-6515 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N18QS according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (October 30, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N18QS. 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 November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data