Cessna S550
N550AJ 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 Cola Express LLC, an LLC in Ripley, West Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 29, 2021 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated November 10, 1987.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- S550 · all S550s and related versions
- Serial number
- S550-0141
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P&W Canada JT15D-4 · 2,500 lb thrust
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1987
- Transponder code
- A6FF74 (octal 51577564)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 29, 2021
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · November 10, 1987
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00245540
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cola Express LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 27
Ripley, WV 25271-0027
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.
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The public federal record on N550AJ, 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 Cola Express LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 29, 2021, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated November 10, 1987, consistent with the 1987 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S550-0141 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N550AJ 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]
1 NTSB record under N550AJ: Incident on October 4, 2014 at Tampa, FL: no injuries. 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: Cessna S550 · operated under 091
The lack of flat roller bearings in the two elevator trim tab actuators and maintenance personnel’s inadequate lubrication of the left elevator trim tab actuator, both of which resulted in the overstress fracture of the left internal screw and subsequent in-flight failure of the pitch trim system.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data