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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Cessna 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- S550 · all S550s 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 S550 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
- S5500134
- 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-4B · 2,500 lb thrust
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1987
- Transponder code
- A65F62 (octal 51457542)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 5, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 5, 2025
- 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 20, 2015
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00125570
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Central Virginia Aviation 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
- 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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N51DA links to the rest of the register
- Cessna S550 94 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-4B 10 aircraft with this engine series · 2,500 lb thrust
- Central Virginia Aviation INC 90 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to March 23, 2027
- Petersburg, VA 36 aircraft registered in this town
- Tri Cities Exec/Dinwiddie County · PTB
- Virginia 5,972 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna S550 19 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna S550 127 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna S550 204 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada JT15D-4B 3 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N51DA.json.
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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]
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]
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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data