Cessna 551
N551NC is a Cessna 551, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1950. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Nion LLC, an LLC in New Century, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 20, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 23, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 551 · all 551s and related versions
- Serial number
- 5510171
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P&W Canada JT15D-4 · 2,500 lb thrust
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1950
- Transponder code
- A70451 (octal 51602121)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 20, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 23, 2016
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00693252
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nion LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2 Aero Plz
New Century, KS 66031-1156
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 N551NC, 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 Nion LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 20, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 23, 2016, 66 years after the 1950 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 5510171 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N551NC 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 N551NC. 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 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