Cessna 560XL
N278XL is a Cessna 560XL, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2002. It has 13 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Newark, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 17, 2020 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; to show compliance with regulations, dated September 12, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 560XL · all 560XLs and related versions
- Serial number
- 560-5278
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P&W Canada PW545 SER · 3,952 lb thrust
- Seats
- 13
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A2C64C (octal 50543114)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 17, 2020
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- September 26, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development; To show compliance with regulations · September 12, 2002
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00304147
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- 560Xl LLC
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 406 Suburban Dr Pmb 980
Newark, DE 19711-3566 - Co-owners
- Mf5Xl LLC / Parks Aviation LLC / Wc-N287Xl LLC
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N278XL, 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 560Xl LLC, a co-owned, certificate issued December 17, 2020, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for research and development; to show compliance with regulations, dated September 12, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 560-5278 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N278XL 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 N278XL. 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 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 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