Cessna S550
N51DA is a Cessna S550, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1987. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Central Virginia Aviation INC, a corporation in Petersburg, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 5, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated February 20, 2015. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- S550 · all S550s and related versions
- Serial number
- S5500134
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P&W Canada JT15D-4B · 2,500 lb thrust
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1987
- Transponder code
- A65F62 (octal 51457542)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 5, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 5, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · February 20, 2015
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00125570
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Central Virginia Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 6775 Beck Chappell Dr
Petersburg, VA 23803
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
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 4 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N51DA, 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 Central Virginia Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 5, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 20, 2015, 28 years after the 1987 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S5500134 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N51DA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Motley David M RV6A (serial 24195, cancelled January 8, 2002); Van Dijk Robert S GLASAIR II SRG (serial 51549, cancelled October 27, 1993). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 18, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N51DA: Accident on April 28, 2001 at Baker, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Motley Vans RV-6A · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain an adequate airspeed while maneuvering at low altitude, which led to an inadvertent stall/spin. The wind gusts were a factor.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX01LA141 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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