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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Socata TB21TC
N55510 is a Socata TB21TC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Western Community College Area DBA, a government body in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 17, 2015 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 14, 1991.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Socata
- Model
- TB21TC · all TB21TCs 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 Daher (Socata) TB21 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
- 1252
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming TIO 540 SER · 250 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A71492 (octal 51612222)
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 17, 2015
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 14, 1991
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00188338
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Western Community College Area DBA
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1601 e 27Th St
Scottsbluff, NE 69361-1815 - Co-owners
- Western Nebraska Community College
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 N55510 links to the rest of the register
- Daher (Socata) TB21 57 registered
- Socata 1,058 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming TIO-540 series 5,074 aircraft with this engine series · 310 hp
- Western Community College Area DBA 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Scottsbluff, NE 35 aircraft registered in this town
- Scottsbluff/Western Nebraska Rgnl/Wm B Heilig Field · BFF
- Nebraska 2,950 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Daher (Socata) TB21 23 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Daher (Socata) TB21 17 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Daher (Socata) TB21 184 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming TIO-540 series 41 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming TIO-540 series 363 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N55510.json.
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The public federal record on N55510, 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 Western Community College Area DBA, a government body, certificate issued April 17, 2015, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1252 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N55510 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]
2 NTSB records under N55510: Accident on November 18, 2004 at Binghamton, NY: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on March 21, 1997 at Hollywood, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Socata TB 21-TC · operated under 091
The pilot's improper IFR procedure by his flight below the decision altitude, and his failure to maintain obstacle clearance.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Socata TB-21C · operated under 091
continued flight by the pilot into adverse weather conditions, and the pilot allowing the aircraft to exceed its design stress limits. Weather associated with the thunderstorm was a related factor.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data