Cessna 525A
N490RM is a Cessna 525A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2005. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Dd Sparkplug LLC, an LLC in Ashtabula, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 21, 2015 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 3, 2005.
Where is it now Last seen October 16 at 4:24 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 525A · all 525As 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
- 525A0300
- 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 FJ 44 SERIES · 1,900 lb thrust
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A6119B (octal 51410633)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 21, 2015
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 6, 2024
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 3, 2005
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00186109
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dd Sparkplug 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
- 2925 Mfg Pl
Ashtabula, OH 44004-9445
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.
Connections how N490RM links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 525 CitationJet (CJ series) 1,970 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
- Williams International FJ 44 series 551 aircraft with this engine series · 1,900 lb thrust
- Dd Sparkplug LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Ashtabula, OH 8 aircraft registered in this town
- Northeast Ohio Regional · HZY
- Ohio 8,529 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
- Failure reports on the Williams International FJ 44 series 168 reports since 1995
- Where N490RM is now · Last seen October 16 at 4:24 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N490RM.json.
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The public federal record on N490RM, 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 Dd Sparkplug LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 21, 2015, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 3, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 525A0300 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N490RM 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 N490RM. 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 October 28, 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