Textron Aviation Inc 525C
N218MB is a Textron Aviation Inc 525C, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2020. It has 11 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Bismarck, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 3, 2020 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for commuter, dated May 28, 2020.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- Model
- 525C · all 525Cs 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 525 CitationJet (CJ series) 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
- 525C0331
- 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 · Williams FJ44-4A · 3,443 lb thrust
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- 2020
- Transponder code
- A1D84F (octal 50354117)
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 3, 2020
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 20, 2024
- 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 · CommuterFAA certificate purpose code C (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 28, 2020
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01317624
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mbi Leasing LLC
- 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
- PO Box 837
Bismarck, ND 58502-0837 - Co-owners
- Lugnut LLC / Missouri Eagle LLC / Redhead Leasing 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.
Connections how N218MB links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 525 CitationJet (CJ series) 1,970 registered
- Textron Aviation Inc 4,419 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Williams International FJ44-4A 353 aircraft with this engine series · 3,443 lb thrust
- Bismarck, ND 136 aircraft registered in this town
- Bismarck Municipal · BIS
- North Dakota 2,495 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 525 CitationJet (CJ series) 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 525 CitationJet (CJ series) 921 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 525 CitationJet (CJ series) 111 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Williams International FJ44-4A 75 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N218MB, 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 Mbi Leasing LLC, a co-owned, certificate issued August 3, 2020, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for commuter, dated May 28, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 525C0331 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N218MB according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N218MB. 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 October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data