Cessna 500
N552GT is a Cessna 500, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines. It has 8 seats. It is registered to an individual in New York, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 23, 2026 and expires on October 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 29, 1974. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 500 · all 500s 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 500 Citation I 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
- 500-0224
- 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-1 · 2,200 lb thrust
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 301 mph
- Transponder code
- A70781 (octal 51603601)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 23, 2026
- Expires
- October 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- October 23, 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 · December 29, 1974
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00860973
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Siilats Keith
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 304 e 6Th St Apt 1
New York, NY 10003-8701
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 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N552GT links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 500 Citation I 62 registered
- Cessna 72,684 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-1 159 aircraft with this engine series · 2,200 lb thrust
- New York, NY 478 aircraft registered in this town
- John F Kennedy International · JFK
- Laguardia Airport · LGA
- Long Island Mac Arthur Airport · ISP
- New York Stewart International · SWF
- 5 more landing places in town
- New York 6,669 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 500 Citation I 22 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 500 Citation I 126 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 500 Citation I 193 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada JT15D-1 5 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N552GT, 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 Siilats Keith, an individual, certificate issued October 23, 2026, expires October 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 500-0224 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N552GT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172P (serial 17275137, cancelled August 13, 2012). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 20, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N552GT. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data