Textron Aviation Inc 680A
N680QS is a Textron Aviation Inc 680A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2021. It has 10 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 1, 2026 and expires on October 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated August 13, 2021. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of NetJets Aviation, Inc., so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen today at 2:07 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- Model
- 680A · all 680As 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 680 Citation Sovereign and Latitude 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
- 680A0278
- 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 PW306D1 · 5,907 lb thrust
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A904A6 (octal 52202246)
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 1, 2026
- Expires
- October 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- October 1, 2026
- 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 · August 13, 2021
- FAA region
- —
- Ownership
- Fractional
- FAA record id
- 01341207
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
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 1
Connections how N680QS links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 680 Citation Sovereign and Latitude 697 registered
- Textron Aviation Inc 4,419 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- NetJets Aviation, Inc. · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PW306D1 350 aircraft with this engine series · 5,907 lb thrust
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 680 Citation Sovereign and Latitude 9 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 680 Citation Sovereign and Latitude 4,643 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 680 Citation Sovereign and Latitude 66 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW306D1 107 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Uplock Switch, faulty · 2026-01-04
- Report filed on this aircraft: Light, inoperative · 2025-05-08
- Report filed on this aircraft: Brake, unknown · 2025-02-23
- Where N680QS is now · Last seen today at 2:07 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N680QS.json.
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The public federal record on N680QS, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, a co-owned, certificate issued October 1, 2026, expires October 31, 2033. Fractional ownership is recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated August 13, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 680A0278 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N680QS according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 1, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N680QS. 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 October 28, 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
