Cessna 560XL
N55VW is a Cessna 560XL, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2000. It has 13 seats. It is registered to Variety Wholesalers INC, a corporation in Henderson, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 6, 2021 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated April 17, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 560XL · all 560XLs and related versions
- Serial number
- 560-5076
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P&W Canada PW545 SER · 3,952 lb thrust
- Seats
- 13
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A6FF02 (octal 51577402)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 6, 2021
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · April 17, 2000
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00233787
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Variety Wholesalers INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 947
Henderson, NC 27536-0947
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 N55VW, 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 Variety Wholesalers INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 6, 2021, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated April 17, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 560-5076 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N55VW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Pdps Pzl-Bielsko SZD-55-1 (serial 551192037, cancelled December 8, 2003). 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]
1 NTSB record under N55VW: Accident on August 12, 2001 at Uvalde, TX: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Pdps Pzl-Bielsko SZD-55-1 · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control during the base turn, which resulted in an inadvertant stall/spin.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW01LA179 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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