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N440S

Cessna 550

Valid Oregon

N440S is a Cessna 550, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1991. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Erie Aviation LLC, an LLC in Salem, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 13, 2020 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 18, 1991. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
550 · all 550s and related versions
Serial number
550-0692
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · P&W Canada JT15D-1 · 2,200 lb thrust
Seats
8
Year built
1991
Transponder code
A54C2D (octal 51246055)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 13, 2020
Expires
November 30, 2027
Last FAA action
April 1, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · December 18, 1991
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00083702

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Erie Aviation LLC
Type
LLC
Address
780 Commercial St SE Ste 100
Salem, OR 97301-3465

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

2026-09-29Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Earlier use of this number 3

2010-01-15Piper PA-31T2 · exported to Brazil · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1994-01-04Bellanca 17-31A · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1979-09-14Beech 200 · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N440S, 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 Erie Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 13, 2020, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated December 18, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 550-0692 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N440S was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Piper PA-31T2 (serial 31T8166016, cancelled January 15, 2010); Bellanca 17-31A (serial 7332105, cancelled January 4, 1994); Beech 200 (serial BB-148, cancelled September 14, 1979). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 29, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N440S. 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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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