Cessna S550
N406CT is a Cessna S550, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1985. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Central Virginia Aviation INC, a corporation in Petersburg, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 13, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 22, 1985. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- S550 · all S550s and related versions
- Serial number
- S550-0038
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P&W Canada JT15D-4 · 2,500 lb thrust
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1985
- Transponder code
- A4C32F (octal 51141457)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 13, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 13, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · March 22, 1985
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00040035
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Central Virginia Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 6775 Beck Chappell Dr
Petersburg, VA 23803
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 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N406CT, 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 Central Virginia Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 13, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated March 22, 1985, consistent with the 1985 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S550-0038 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N406CT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Reims Aviation S A F406 (serial 0061, cancelled June 29, 2004). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 30, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N406CT: Incident on October 20, 2010 at Teterboro, NJ: no injuries. 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 S550 · operated under UNK
The pilot of the F900 overshooting of the final approach course, which conflicted with traffic in the pattern. Contributing to the accident was the lack of appropriate coordination between the tower controller and the approach controller.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for OPS11IA054 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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