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Textron Aviation Inc 560XL
N712AB is a Textron Aviation Inc 560XL, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2020. It has 13 seats. It is registered to Arcbest II INC, a corporation in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 8, 2021 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 28, 2020.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Sunset Aviation LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- Model
- 560XL · all 560XLs 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 560 Citation V, Ultra, Encore and Excel 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
- 560-6297
- 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 PW545C · 4,119 lb thrust
- Seats
- 13
- Year built
- 2020
- Transponder code
- A9837D (octal 52301575)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 8, 2021
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- March 13, 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 28, 2020
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01330646
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Arcbest II INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 10048
Fort Smith, AR 72917-0048
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 1
Connections how N712AB links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 560 Citation V, Ultra, Encore and Excel 1,344 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
- Sunset Aviation LLC · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PW545C 227 aircraft with this engine series · 4,119 lb thrust
- Arcbest II INC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Fort Smith, AR 74 aircraft registered in this town
- Fort Smith Regional · FSM
- Arkansas 3,495 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 560 Citation V, Ultra, Encore and Excel 38 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 560 Citation V, Ultra, Encore and Excel 5,841 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 560 Citation V, Ultra, Encore and Excel 319 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N712AB, 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 Arcbest II INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 8, 2021, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated December 28, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 560-6297 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N712AB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild F-27A (serial 91, cancelled December 3, 2014). 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 N712AB. 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 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data