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N501SW, a Cessna 501
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N501SW

Cessna 501

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesMinnesota

N501SW is a Cessna 501, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1985. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Tobar Services LLC, an LLC in Hanover, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 20, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 9, 2019. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
501 · all 501s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 501 Citation I/SP 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
501-0689
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-1B · 2,200 lb thrust
Seats
8
Year built
1985
Transponder code
A63F4C (octal 51437514)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
July 20, 2026
Expires
July 31, 2033
Last FAA action
July 20, 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 9, 2019
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00430795

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Tobar Services 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
11462 Crow Hassan Park Rd
Hanover, MN 55341-9404

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

2026-10-22Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Earlier use of this number 1

2012-07-16Boeing 737-5H4 · Valid registration

Connections how N501SW links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Hanover, MN 5 aircraft registered in this town
  • Minnesota 6,933 aircraft registered

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Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N501SW, 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 Tobar Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 20, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 9, 2019, 34 years after the 1985 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 501-0689 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N501SW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 737-5H4 (serial 24178, cancelled July 16, 2012). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 22, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N501SW. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data