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N500XL

Cessna 560XL

Valid Texas

N500XL is a Cessna 560XL, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2003. It has 13 seats. It is registered to Abd Equipment LLC, an LLC in Aledo, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 10, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 13, 2003.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
560XL · all 560XLs and related versions
Serial number
560-5335
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · P&W Canada PW545 SER · 3,952 lb thrust
Seats
13
Year built
2003
Transponder code
A63C08 (octal 51436010)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 10, 2026
Expires
August 31, 2033
Last FAA action
August 10, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · May 13, 2003
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00026339

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Abd Equipment LLC
Type
LLC
Address
205 N Spanish Plum Ct
Aledo, TX 76008-2776

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

2005-04-18Sikorsky HH-3F · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N500XL, 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 Abd Equipment LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 10, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated May 13, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 560-5335 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N500XL was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Sikorsky HH-3F (serial 1472, cancelled April 18, 2005). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N500XL: Accident on June 10, 2000 at Wellington, NV: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

LAX00LA220Accident on June 10, 2000 at Wellington, NV: serious injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 1472

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Sikorsky HH-3F · operated under 091

the pilot's encounter with a wind shear while maneuvering at low altitude in mountainous terrain, which resulted in a high descent rate and inadvertent entry into a power settling condition.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX00LA220 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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