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N491J

Cessna 525B

Valid Montana

N491J is a Cessna 525B, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2007. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Lucky Stars LLC, an LLC in Missoula, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 17, 2021 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for commuter, dated October 4, 2007. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
525B · all 525Bs and related versions
Serial number
525B0186
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · Williams FJ44-3A · 2,820 lb thrust
Seats
8
Year built
2007
Transponder code
A61497 (octal 51412227)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 17, 2021
Expires
November 30, 2028
Last FAA action
March 21, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Commuter · October 4, 2007
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00342499

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Lucky Stars LLC
Type
LLC
Address
PO Box 7964
Missoula, MT 59807-7964

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 1

2026-09-29Loan or lien (security agreement)

Records check free · 1 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N491J, 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 Lucky Stars LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 17, 2021, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for commuter, dated October 4, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 525B0186 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N491J according to the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONRecent registry documents

1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 29, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N491J. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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