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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Cessna S550
N666DS is a Cessna S550, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1985. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Daviator LLC, an LLC in Homer, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 19, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 23, 1991.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- S550 · all S550s 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 S550 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
- S550-0056
- 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 JT15D-4 · 2,500 lb thrust
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1985
- Transponder code
- A8CADF (octal 52145337)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 19, 2024
- Expires
- July 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 28, 2024
- 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 · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 23, 1991
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00185978
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Daviator LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 2477
Homer, AK 99603-2477
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 N666DS links to the rest of the register
- Cessna S550 94 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
- Pratt & Whitney Canada JT15D-4 357 aircraft with this engine series · 2,500 lb thrust
- Daviator LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Homer, AK 199 aircraft registered in this town
- Homer Airport · HOM
- Homer-Beluga Lake Seaplane Base · 5BL
- Alaska 9,146 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna S550 19 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna S550 127 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna S550 204 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada JT15D-4 4 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N666DS, 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 Daviator LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 19, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 23, 1991, 6 years after the 1985 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 S550-0056 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N666DS 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]
1 NTSB record under N666DS: Accident on May 22, 2025 at San Diego, CA: fatal, destroyed (6 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna S550 · operated under 091
On May 22, 2025, at 0347 Pacific daylight time (PDT), a Cessna Citation S550, N666DS, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near San Diego, California. The pilot and five passengers were fatally injured. Eight people on the ground received minor injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The airplane departed Teterboro Airport (TEB), Teterboro, New Jersey, on May 21, about 2309 eastern daylight time (2009 PDT) and arrived at Colonel James Jabara Airport (AAO), Wichita, Kansas, about 0148 central daylight time (2348 PDT). T…
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data