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N501JD

Cessna 501

Valid Delaware

N501JD is a Cessna 501, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1979. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Universal Air Service LTD, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 2, 2019 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 30, 2003.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
501 · all 501s and related versions
Serial number
501-0129
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · P&W Canada JT15D-1A · 2,200 lb thrust
Seats
8
Year built
1979
Transponder code
A63E73 (octal 51437163)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 2, 2019
Expires
March 31, 2029
Last FAA action
February 26, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · April 30, 2003
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00640577

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Universal Air Service LTD
Type
Corporation
Address
2810 N Church St # 59142
Wilmington, DE 19802-4447

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N501JD, 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 Universal Air Service LTD, a corporation, certificate issued March 2, 2019, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 30, 2003, 24 years after the 1979 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 501-0129 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N501JD 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 N501JD. 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