Cessna 401
N550FS is a Cessna 401, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 8 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 16, 1968.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 401 · all 401s and related versions
- Serial number
- 401-0289
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 198 mph
- Transponder code
- A6FFF9 (octal 51577771)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pending
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- April 29, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 16, 1968
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00723001
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- N6185 Resource Dr
Sheboygan Falls, WI 53085-2348
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.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N550FS, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 16, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 401-0289 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N550FS 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 N550FS. 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 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data