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N444EA

Cessna 550

Valid Delaware

N444EA is a Cessna 550, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2004. It has 8 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Newark, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 9, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated August 3, 2004.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
550 · all 550s and related versions
Serial number
550-1079
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · P&W Canada 530A · 4,000 lb thrust
Seats
8
Year built
2004
Transponder code
A559DE (octal 51254736)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 9, 2025
Expires
July 31, 2032
Last FAA action
July 9, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · August 3, 2004
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00117579

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Moongate LLC
Type
Co-owned
Address
117 Salem Church Rd
Newark, DE 19713-2940
Co-owners
Makinghay LLC

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

1991-10-18Cessna 411A · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N444EA, 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 Moongate LLC, a co-owned, certificate issued July 9, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated August 3, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 550-1079 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N444EA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 411A (serial 4110267, cancelled October 18, 1991). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N444EA: Accident on April 25, 1989 at Detroit, MI: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

CHI89LA080Accident on April 25, 1989 at Detroit, MI: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 411A0267

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 411 · operated under 091

FAILURE OF A BOLT IN THE LEFT MAIN LANDING GEAR ASSEMBLY.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI89LA080 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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