Cessna 501
N2PA is a Cessna 501, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1982. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Pylon Aviation Services LLC, an LLC in Chandler, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 26, 2024 and expires on November 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 8, 1982.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 501 · all 501s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 501 Citation I/SP 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
- 501-0242
- 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
- 1982
- Transponder code
- A18E97 (octal 50307227)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 26, 2024
- Expires
- November 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 24, 2025
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 8, 1982
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00770927
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pylon Aviation Services LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4377 W Rickenbacker Way
Chandler, AZ 85226-4725
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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N2PA links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 501 Citation I/SP 189 registered
- Cessna 72,683 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney Canada JT15D-1 159 aircraft with this engine series · 2,200 lb thrust
- Pylon Aviation Services LLC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to February 23, 2027
- Chandler, AZ 445 aircraft registered in this town
- Chandler Municipal · CHD
- Stellar Airpark · P19
- Arizona 8,422 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 501 Citation I/SP 13 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 501 Citation I/SP 68 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 501 Citation I/SP 89 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada JT15D-1 5 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N2PA.json.
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The public federal record on N2PA, 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 Pylon Aviation Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 26, 2024, expires November 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 8, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 501-0242 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2PA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech C35 (serial D-3091, cancelled July 30, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N2PA: Accident on February 19, 1996 at Lee Vining, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 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: Beech C35 · operated under 091
Fuel starvation due to the pilot's failure to adequate monitor the aircraft's fuel system and select a tank containing fuel in a timely manner. The pilot's failure to monitor the fuel system was due to the effects of hypoxia. Factors in the accident were the pilot's failure to obtain a preflight weather briefing, his inadequate preflight planning/in-flight decisions, and his lack of familiarity with the mountains.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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