Cessna 550
N555DS is a Cessna 550, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1981. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Weather Modification LLC, an LLC in Fargo, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 21, 2016 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial surveying, dated January 26, 2010.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 550 · all 550s and related versions
- Serial number
- 550-0275
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P&W Canada JT15D-4 · 2,500 lb thrust
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A7125A (octal 51611132)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 21, 2016
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Aerial surveying · January 26, 2010
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00743375
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Weather Modification LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3802 20Th St N
Fargo, ND 58102-0908
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N555DS, 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 Weather Modification LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 21, 2016, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 26, 2010, 29 years after the 1981 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 550-0275 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N555DS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 310G (serial 310G0104, cancelled June 3, 1994). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N555DS. 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data