Cessna 550
N5852K is a Cessna 550, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2003. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Bode Aviation INC, a corporation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 9, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; aerial surveying, dated November 29, 2004.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Bode Aviation, Inc., so it can be flown for hire.
Where is it now Last seen Thursday at 10:21 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 550 · all 550s 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 550 Citation II 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
- 550-1056
- 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 530A · 4,000 lb thrust
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A78B23 (octal 51705443)
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 9, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 9, 2025
- Airworthiness
- MultipleFAA airworthiness class code 6 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Standard; Restricted; Aerial surveyingFAA certificate purpose code 132 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 29, 2004
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00041979
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bode Aviation INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 7401 Atrisco Vista Blvd NW
Albuquerque, NM 87120-6601
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 N5852K links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 550 Citation II 501 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
- Bode Aviation, Inc. · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada 530A 140 aircraft with this engine series · 4,000 lb thrust
- Bode Aviation INC 8 aircraft in the fleet
- Albuquerque, NM 1,181 aircraft registered in this town
- Albuquerque International Sunport · ABQ
- Double Eagle II Airport · AEG
- New Mexico 3,108 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 550 Citation II 24 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 550 Citation II 988 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 550 Citation II 210 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Dump Valve, leaking · 2021-10-26
- Where N5852K is now · Last seen Thursday at 10:21 am.
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The public federal record on N5852K, 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 Bode Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 9, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; aerial surveying, dated November 29, 2004, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 550-1056 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5852K 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 N5852K. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data