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Cessna 404
N54ZP is a Cessna 404, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 8 seats. It is registered to South Aero INC, a corporation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 19, 2018 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 19, 1980.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of South Aero, Inc., so it can be flown for hire.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 404 · all 404s 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 404 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
- 404-0694
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Cont Motor GTSI0-520-F-K · 435 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1980
- Cruising speed
- 198 mph
- Transponder code
- A6D7E0 (octal 51553740)
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 19, 2018
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 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 · December 19, 1980
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00373015
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- South Aero 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
- PO Box 9175
Albuquerque, NM 87119-9175
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.
Connections how N54ZP links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 404 26 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
- South Aero, Inc. · charter operator
- Continental GTSIO-520-F-K 169 aircraft with this engine series · 435 hp
- South Aero INC 9 aircraft in the fleet
- Albuquerque, NM 1,181 aircraft registered in this town
- Albuquerque International Sunport · ABQ
- Double Eagle II Airport · AEG
- New Mexico 3,109 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 404 17 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 404 249 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 404 80 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Line, corroded · 2005-01-11
- Where N54ZP is now · Last seen today at 7:59 am.
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The public federal record on N54ZP, 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 South Aero INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 19, 2018, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 19, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 404-0694 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N54ZP 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 N54ZP. 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 November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data