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A Cessna 500 Citation I, the same model family as N27SF
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 28, 2026
N27SF

Cessna 500

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesPennsylvania

N27SF is a Cessna 500, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1973. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Lock Haven Aircraft Sales, a corporation in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated January 31, 1973.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
500 · all 500s 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 500 Citation I 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
500-0064
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 · P&W Canada JT15D-1 · 2,200 lb thrust
Seats
8
Year built
1973
Cruising speed
301 mph
Transponder code
A2A5B9 (octal 50522671)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
—
Expires
—
Last FAA action
July 23, 2008
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 · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 31, 1973
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00663592

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Lock Haven Aircraft Sales
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
PO Box 418
Lock Haven, PA 17745-0418

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N27SF links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
  • Lock Haven Aircraft Sales 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
  • Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to June 24, 2027
Place

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Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N27SF, 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 Lock Haven Aircraft Sales, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated January 31, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 500-0064 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N27SF according to the deregistered file. [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 N27SF. 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 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data