Cessna 550
N551BC is a Cessna 550, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1979. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Radar Rider LLC, an LLC in Kissimmee, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 13, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated September 13, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 550 · all 550s and related versions
- Serial number
- 550-0242
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P&W Canada JT15D-4 · 2,500 lb thrust
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1979
- Transponder code
- A7033E (octal 51601476)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 13, 2023
- Expires
- July 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- July 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · September 13, 1996
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00453425
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Radar Rider LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2611 W Vine St
Kissimmee, FL 34741-3972
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 N551BC, 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 Radar Rider LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 13, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 13, 1996, 17 years after the 1979 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 550-0242 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N551BC 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 N551BC: Accident on March 24, 2017 at Salt Lake City, UT: no injuries, substantial damage. 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 550 · operated under 091
An in-flight collision with a goose during approach.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA17CA207 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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