Cessna 402A
N4550Q is a Cessna 402A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 9 seats. It is registered to Island Wings INC, a corporation in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 7, 2020 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 15, 1969.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 402A · all 402As and related versions
- Serial number
- 402A0050
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 9
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 198 mph
- Transponder code
- A58716 (octal 51303426)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 7, 2020
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 15, 1969
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00892894
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Island Wings INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1641 S Perimeter Rd # 34
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309-7108
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.
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The public federal record on N4550Q, 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 Island Wings INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 7, 2020, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 15, 1969, consistent with the 1969 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 402A0050 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4550Q 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]
1 NTSB record under N4550Q: Accident on July 2, 2021 at Fort Lauderdale, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. 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 402A · operated under 135
The pilot’s loss of directional control during takeoff with a fogged wind screen and sun glare, which resulted in a runway excursion and a collision with a taxiway sign.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA21LA281 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data