Cessna 501
N393PJ is a Cessna 501, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1980. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Thunder Wings Aircraft Sales LLC, an LLC in Bethany, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 24, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 14, 2001.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Private Jets, 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
- 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
- 501-0303
- 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-1A · 2,200 lb thrust
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- A48F3C (octal 51107474)
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 24, 2023
- Expires
- October 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 24, 2023
- 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 · December 14, 2001
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00143957
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thunder Wings Aircraft Sales 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
- 7220 NW 63Rd St
Bethany, OK 73008-5002
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.
Connections how N393PJ links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 501 Citation I/SP 189 registered
- Cessna 72,684 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Private Jets, INC. · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada JT15D-1A 73 aircraft with this engine series · 2,200 lb thrust
- Thunder Wings Aircraft Sales LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to October 9, 2027
- Bethany, OK 49 aircraft registered in this town
- Oklahoma 5,643 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-1A 4 airworthiness directives
- Report filed on this aircraft: Gyro, erratic · 2023-01-10
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The public federal record on N393PJ, 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 Thunder Wings Aircraft Sales LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 24, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 14, 2001, 21 years after the 1980 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 501-0303 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N393PJ 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 N393PJ. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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