Cessna 501
N501AB is a Cessna 501, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1978. It has 8 seats. It is registered to an individual in Richmond, Virginia. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 15, 1995. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 501 · all 501s and related versions
- Serial number
- 501-0082
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P&W Canada JT15D-1 · 2,200 lb thrust
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1978
- Transponder code
- A63DA9 (octal 51436651)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pending
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 15, 1995
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00403141
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 8041 Maryland Dr Apt S
Richmond, VA 23295
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N501AB, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 15, 1995, 17 years after the 1978 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 501-0082 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N501AB according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 15, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N501AB. 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