Cessna 501
N505CF 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 W Brown Enterprises INC, a corporation in Durant, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 1, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 18, 1979.
Where is it now Last seen October 16 at 10:02 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 501 · all 501s 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 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
- 501-0130
- 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
- 1979
- Transponder code
- A64CBB (octal 51446273)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 1, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 1, 2023
- 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 · October 18, 1979
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00950780
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- W Brown Enterprises INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2905 N 1St Ave
Durant, OK 74701-2514
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.
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N505CF links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 501 Citation I/SP 189 registered
- Cessna 72,684 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
- W Brown Enterprises INC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Durant, OK 51 aircraft registered in this town
- Durant Rgnl/Eaker Field · DUA
- Oklahoma 5,643 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 501 Citation I/SP 13 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 501 Citation I/SP 68 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 501 Citation I/SP 89 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada JT15D-1 5 airworthiness directives
- Where N505CF is now · Last seen October 16 at 10:02 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N505CF.json.
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The public federal record on N505CF, 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 W Brown Enterprises INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 1, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 18, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 501-0130 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N505CF according to the deregistered file. [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 N505CF. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data