Cessna 501
N511WS 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 Mcbride Aviation LLC, an LLC in Longview, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 6, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 20, 1979.
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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
- 501-0136
- 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
- A6672B (octal 51463453)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 6, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 6, 2024
- 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 20, 1979
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00592826
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mcbride Aviation 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
- 4010 Water View Dr
Longview, TX 75605-0826
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N511WS links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 501 Citation I/SP 189 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
- Mcbride Aviation LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Longview, TX 198 aircraft registered in this town
- East Texas Regional · GGG
- Texas 29,938 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
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N511WS.json.
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The public federal record on N511WS, 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 Mcbride Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 6, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 20, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 501-0136 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N511WS 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 N511WS. 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