Cessna 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- S550 · all S550s and related versions
- Serial number
- S550-0056
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P&W Canada JT15D-4 · 2,500 lb thrust
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1985
- Transponder code
- A8CADF (octal 52145337)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 19, 2024
- Expires
- July 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 28, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · December 23, 1991
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00185978
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Daviator LLC
- Type
- LLC
- 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.
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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]
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: 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…
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- 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