Cessna 550
N257BW is a Cessna 550, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1981. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Gb Aviation Leasing LLC, an LLC in Mooresville, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 25, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 13, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 550 · all 550s and related versions
- Serial number
- 5500283
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P&W Canada JT15D-1 · 2,200 lb thrust
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A271AD (octal 50470655)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 25, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 25, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · May 13, 1999
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00111603
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gb Aviation Leasing LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 319 Doolie Rd
Mooresville, NC 28117-5801
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N257BW, 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 Gb Aviation Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 25, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 13, 1999, 18 years after the 1981 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5500283 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N257BW 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]
1 NTSB record under N257BW: Accident on December 18, 2025 at Statesville, NC: fatal, substantial damage (7 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 550 · operated under 091
On December 18, 2025, at 1015 eastern standard time, a Cessna Citation 550, N257BW, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Statesville, North Carolina. The pilot and 6 passengers were fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 91 personal flight. The airplane was positioned on the south parking ramp at Statesville Regional Airport (SVH), Statesville, North Carolina, for passenger loading and preflight. Ground personnel reported the airplane was fully fueled prior to the flight. Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) audio began recordi…
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data