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N501DJ

Textron Aviation Inc 525C

N501DJ is a Textron Aviation Inc 525C, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2020. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Direct Aviation LLC, an LLC in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 11, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for commuter, dated March 4, 2020.

Aircraft

Maker
Textron Aviation Inc
Model
525C · all 525Cs and related versions
Serial number
525C0324
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · Williams FJ44-4A · 3,443 lb thrust
Seats
11
Year built
2020
Transponder code
A63DFB (octal 51436773)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 11, 2026
Expires
January 31, 2033
Last FAA action
January 11, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Commuter · March 4, 2020
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01312863

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Direct Aviation LLC
Type
LLC
Address
3405 N Louise Ave
Sioux Falls, SD 57107-0175

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N501DJ, 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 Direct Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 11, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for commuter, dated March 4, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 525C0324 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N501DJ according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N501DJ. 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