Cessna 550
N550BC is a Cessna 550, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Cb Air LLC, an LLC in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 5, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 24, 1997.
Where is it now Last seen October 8 at 5:38 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 550 · all 550s 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 550 Citation II 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
- 550-0804
- 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 530A · 4,000 lb thrust
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A6FF87 (octal 51577607)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 5, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- December 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 · March 24, 1997
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00566091
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cb Air 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
- 1685 e Joyce Blvd
Fayetteville, AR 72703-6214
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 1
Connections how N550BC links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 550 Citation II 501 registered
- Cessna 72,688 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney Canada 530A 140 aircraft with this engine series · 4,000 lb thrust
- Cb Air LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Fayetteville, AR 140 aircraft registered in this town
- Drake Field · FYV
- Arkansas 3,496 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 550 Citation II 24 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 550 Citation II 988 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 550 Citation II 210 supplemental type certificates
- Where N550BC is now · Last seen October 8 at 5:38 pm.
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The public federal record on N550BC, 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 Cb Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 5, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 550-0804 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N550BC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-32R-300 (serial 32R7780161, cancelled July 12, 1994). 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 N550BC: Accident on December 10, 1993 at Antigo, WI: fatal, substantial damage (2 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: Piper PA-32R-300 · operated under 091
the failure of the pilot in command to maintain proper altitude.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data