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N653CN

Cessna 560XL

Valid Tennessee

N653CN is a Cessna 560XL, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2003. It has 13 seats. It is registered to Corporate Flight Management INC DBA, a corporation in Smyrna, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 16, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 31, 2003.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
560XL · all 560XLs and related versions
Serial number
560-5324
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · P&W Canada PW545 SER · 3,952 lb thrust
Seats
13
Year built
2003
Transponder code
A8981E (octal 52114036)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 16, 2025
Expires
December 31, 2032
Last FAA action
May 9, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · March 31, 2003
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00026309

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Corporate Flight Management INC DBA
Type
Corporation
Address
808 Blue Angel Way
Smyrna, TN 37167-3374
Co-owners
Contour Aviation

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N653CN, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Corporate Flight Management INC DBA, a corporation, certificate issued December 16, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated March 31, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 560-5324 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N653CN according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N653CN: Accident on May 21, 1997 at Indianapolis, IN: fatal. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

CHI97LA140Accident on May 21, 1997 at Indianapolis, IN: fatal.serial on NTSB record: 6404

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aerospatiale AS-365-N2 · operated under 091

inadequate visual clearance by the passenger resulting in his being struck with the rotor blade. A factor relating to this accident was the gusting winds.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI97LA140 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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