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A Cessna 560 Citation V, Ultra, Encore and Excel, the same model family as N23QS
A Cessna 560 Citation V, Ultra, Encore and Excel like this one, not N23QS itself. Photo: Gerry Stegmeier, GFDL 1.2, via Wikimedia Commons. Pictures of N23QS itself may be on Planespotters · JetPhotos · Airliners.net. Operator or owner? Send your own picture.
Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N23QS

Textron Aviation Inc 560XL

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes

N23QS is a Textron Aviation Inc 560XL, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines. 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 October 16, 2026 and expires on October 31, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested. 2 documents are on file: 2 × bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

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.

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Aircraft

Maker
Textron Aviation Inc
Model
560XL · all 560XLs 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 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
560-6519
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
Seats
13
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A20796 (octal 50403626)

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 16, 2026
Expires
October 31, 2033
Last FAA action
October 16, 2026
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
—
FAA record id
01562667

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
Charter N23QS with NetJets Aviation, Inc.:

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 2

2026-10-13Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)
2026-10-14Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Connections how N23QS links to the rest of the register

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Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N23QS, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, a co-owned, certificate issued October 16, 2026, expires October 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 560-6519 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N23QS according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

2 documents received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 13, 2026), Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 14, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N23QS. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data