Cessna 500
N500SK is a Cessna 500, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1973. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Saphire Air LLC, an LLC in Utica, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 9, 2009 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated April 6, 1989.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 500 · all 500s and related versions
- Serial number
- 500-0129
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P&W Canada JT15D-1 · 2,200 lb thrust
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 301 mph
- Transponder code
- A63B8A (octal 51435612)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 9, 2009
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · April 6, 1989
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00703652
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Saphire Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2222 State Route 5
Utica, NY 13502-7511
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 N500SK, 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 Saphire Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 9, 2009, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 6, 1989, 16 years after the 1973 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 500-0129 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N500SK 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 N500SK. 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 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
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