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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026Eclipse Aerospace Inc EA500
N550DM is an Eclipse Aerospace Inc EA500, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2016. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Direct Jet LLC, an LLC in Redwood Shores, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 27, 2017 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 30, 2016.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Eclipse Aerospace Inc
- Model
- EA500 · all EA500s 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. Aluminium joined by friction-stir welding rather than rivets. This is how the Eclipse Aerospace Inc EA500 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
- 550-1009
- 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 PW610F-A · 950 lb thrust
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 2016
- Transponder code
- A6FFC2 (octal 51577702)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 27, 2017
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- January 6, 2026
- 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 30, 2016
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01230110
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Direct Jet 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
- 333 Twin Dolphin Dr Ste 145
Redwood Shores, CA 94065
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N550DM links to the rest of the register
- Eclipse Aerospace Inc EA500 30 registered
- Eclipse Aerospace Inc 30 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PW610F-A 243 aircraft with this engine series · 950 lb thrust
- Direct Jet LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Redwood Shores, CA 1 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,642 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Eclipse Aerospace Inc EA500 11 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Eclipse Aerospace Inc EA500 12 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW610F-A 143 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N550DM, 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 Direct Jet LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 27, 2017, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 30, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 550-1009 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N550DM 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 N550DM. 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 October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data