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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 28, 2026Cessna S550
N550HC is a Cessna S550, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1986. It has 8 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Carlsbad, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 24, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated November 14, 1986.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- S550 · all S550s 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 S550 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
- S550-0116
- 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 JT15D-4 · 2,500 lb thrust
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1986
- Transponder code
- A7001D (octal 51600035)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 24, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 24, 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 · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 14, 1986
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00254720
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vasquez Jimmy
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1818 N Guadalupe St
Carlsbad, NM 88220-8813 - Co-owners
- Vasquez Angela
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 N550HC links to the rest of the register
- Cessna S550 94 registered
- Cessna 72,683 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney Canada JT15D-4 357 aircraft with this engine series · 2,500 lb thrust
- Carlsbad, NM 35 aircraft registered in this town
- Cavern City Air Trml Airport · CNM
- New Mexico 3,105 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna S550 19 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna S550 127 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna S550 204 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada JT15D-4 4 airworthiness directives
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bulb, burned out · 2001-02-09
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The public federal record on N550HC, 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 Vasquez Jimmy, a co-owned, certificate issued April 24, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated November 14, 1986, consistent with the 1986 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S550-0116 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N550HC 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 N550HC. 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 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data