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Cessna 525B
N444AM is a Cessna 525B, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2006. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Infinity & Beyond LLC, an LLC in South Bend, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 4, 2019 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for commuter, dated January 11, 2019.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Skyway Aviation Services, Inc., so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen today at 7:28 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 525B · all 525Bs 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 525 CitationJet (CJ series) 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
- 525B0063
- 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 · Williams FJ44-3A · 2,820 lb thrust
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A55985 (octal 51254605)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 4, 2019
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 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 · CommuterFAA certificate purpose code C (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 11, 2019
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00217919
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Infinity & Beyond 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
- 6101 Nimtz Pkwy
South Bend, IN 46628-6111
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 N444AM links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 525 CitationJet (CJ series) 1,972 registered
- Cessna 72,688 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Skyway Aviation Services, Inc. · charter operator
- Williams International FJ44-3A 538 aircraft with this engine series · 2,820 lb thrust
- Infinity & Beyond LLC 7 aircraft in the fleet
- South Bend, IN 62 aircraft registered in this town
- South Bend International · SBN
- Indiana 5,695 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 525 CitationJet (CJ series) 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 525 CitationJet (CJ series) 921 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 525 CitationJet (CJ series) 111 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Williams International FJ44-3A 1 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Williams International FJ44-3A 167 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Smoke Detector, false activation · 2026-06-01
- Report filed on this aircraft: Smoke Detector, false activation · 2026-05-12
- Report filed on this aircraft: Fuel Control, faulted · 2022-08-25
- Where N444AM is now · Last seen today at 7:28 pm.
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The public federal record on N444AM, 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 Infinity & Beyond LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 4, 2019, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 11, 2019, 13 years after the 2006 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 525B0063 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N444AM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 421B (serial 421B0367, cancelled July 9, 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 N444AM: Accident on October 29, 2003 at Kelso, CA: fatal, destroyed (5 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: Cessna 421B · operated under 091
The pilot's continued VFR flight into instrument conditions between cloud layers and with reduced visibility due to smoke that resulted in an in-flight loss of control from spatial disorientation, and the structural overload of the airframe during the subsequent high speed descent.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data