Cessna 650
N478PA is a Cessna 650, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1996. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Merlin One Aircraft LLC, an LLC in San Antonio, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 11, 2025 and expires on April 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated October 29, 2013.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 650 · all 650s 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 650 Citation III, VI and VII 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
- 6507069
- 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 · Garrett TFE731-4R · 4,080 lb thrust
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A5E018 (octal 51360030)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 11, 2025
- Expires
- April 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- April 11, 2025
- 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 · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 29, 2013
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00485871
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Merlin One Aircraft 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
- 10440 John Cape Rd
San Antonio, TX 78216-4185
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N478PA links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 650 Citation III, VI and VII 201 registered
- Cessna 72,684 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Garrett (Honeywell) TFE731-4R 7 aircraft with this engine series · 4,080 lb thrust
- Merlin One Aircraft LLC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- San Antonio, TX 789 aircraft registered in this town
- Kelly Field · SKF
- San Antonio International · SAT
- Stinson Municipal · SSF
- Boerne Stage Airfield · 5C1
- 5 more landing places in town
- Texas 29,945 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 650 Citation III, VI and VII 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 650 Citation III, VI and VII 491 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 650 Citation III, VI and VII 139 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Garrett (Honeywell) TFE731-4R 36 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N478PA, 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 Merlin One Aircraft LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 11, 2025, expires April 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 29, 2013, 17 years after the 1996 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 6507069 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N478PA 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N478PA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data