Cessna 550
N70KB is a Cessna 550, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1982. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Checkerboard Aviation LLC, an LLC in Bluffton, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 23, 2025 and expires on January 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 12, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 550 · all 550s and related versions
- Serial number
- 550-0417
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P&W Canada JT15D-4 · 2,500 lb thrust
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1982
- Transponder code
- A95318 (octal 52251430)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 23, 2025
- Expires
- January 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- January 23, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · March 12, 1997
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00746241
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Checkerboard Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 21 Towne Dr
Bluffton, SC 29910-4201
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.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N70KB, 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 Checkerboard Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 23, 2025, expires January 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 12, 1997, 15 years after the 1982 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 550-0417 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N70KB was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-23-250 (serial 27-3469, cancelled June 11, 2013); Boeing A75N1(PT17) (serial 751528, cancelled February 10, 1997). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N70KB. 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 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 September 30, 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