Cessna 500
N501RT is a Cessna 500, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1971. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Paratus Jets LLC, an LLC in Auburn, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 29, 2021 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated February 18, 1972.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 500 · all 500s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 500 Citation I family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 500-0001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbofanFAA type of engine code 5 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · P&W Canada JT15D-1 · 2,200 lb thrust
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1971
- Cruising speed
- 301 mph
- Transponder code
- A63F30 (octal 51437460)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 29, 2021
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 17, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 18, 1972
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00820892
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Paratus Jets LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2636 County Road 60
Auburn, IN 46706-6029
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N501RT links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 500 Citation I 62 registered
- Cessna 72,685 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney Canada JT15D-1 159 aircraft with this engine series · 2,200 lb thrust
- Paratus Jets LLC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Auburn, IN 26 aircraft registered in this town
- Auburn/Dekalb Executive · GWB
- Indiana 5,697 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 500 Citation I 22 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 500 Citation I 126 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 500 Citation I 193 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada JT15D-1 5 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N501RT, 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 Paratus Jets LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 29, 2021, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated February 18, 1972, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 500-0001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N501RT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Thomas Robert S THOMAS MODEL T (serial T-01, cancelled November 29, 2012). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N501RT. 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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data