Cessna 401A
N701CJ is a Cessna 401A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Centurion Aviation LTD, a corporation in Salina, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 27, 2001 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 17, 1969.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 401A · all 401As and related versions
- Serial number
- 401A0022
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor TSIO-520 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 198 mph
- Transponder code
- A95880 (octal 52254200)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 27, 2001
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 17, 1969
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00770787
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Centurion Aviation LTD
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 5236 E North St
Salina, KS 67401-9619
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 N701CJ, 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 Centurion Aviation LTD, a corporation, certificate issued November 27, 2001, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 17, 1969, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 401A0022 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N701CJ 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 N701CJ: Accident on May 20, 1996 at Great Bend, KS: no injuries, substantial damage. 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 401 · operated under 091
the failure of the exhaust header. Additional factors include the visual restrictions which prevented a detailed examination of the exhaust system, and the inadequate inspection procedures required in AD 75-23-08 R5.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI96FA171 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data