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N551GB

Cessna 500

Valid Tennessee

N551GB is a Cessna 500, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1976. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Fayetteville Aviation INC, a corporation in Fayetteville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 19, 1976.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
500 · all 500s and related versions
Serial number
500-0314
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · P&W Canada JT15D-1 · 2,200 lb thrust
Seats
8
Year built
1976
Cruising speed
301 mph
Transponder code
A703BA (octal 51601672)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
—
Expires
—
Last FAA action
January 24, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · May 19, 1976
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00290985

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Fayetteville Aviation INC
Type
Corporation
Address
37 Airport Rd
Fayetteville, TN 37334-6671

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 · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N551GB, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Fayetteville Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated May 19, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 500-0314 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N551GB according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N551GB. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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