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N239TC

Cessna 560XL

N239TC is a Cessna 560XL, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2008. It has 13 seats. It is registered to Principal Leasing Company LLC, an LLC in Raleigh, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 31, 2013 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated October 5, 2008.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
560XL · all 560XLs and related versions
Serial number
560-5817
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · P&W Canada PW545B · 4,119 lb thrust
Seats
13
Year built
2008
Transponder code
A22B9B (octal 50425633)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 31, 2013
Expires
December 31, 2029
Last FAA action
December 22, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · October 5, 2008
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00427609

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Principal Leasing Company LLC
Type
LLC
Address
4900 Falls Of Neuse Rd Ste 150
Raleigh, NC 27609-5490

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Documents on file 0

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

Earlier use of this number 1

2011-05-09Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer COLT 120A · N-number assigned, not registered, pending cancellation

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N239TC, 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 Principal Leasing Company LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 31, 2013, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated October 5, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 560-5817 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N239TC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer COLT 120A (serial 1965USA, cancelled May 9, 2011). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N239TC. 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 August 27, 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