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A Cessna 560 Citation V, Ultra, Encore and Excel, the same model family as N88AF
A Cessna 560 Citation V, Ultra, Encore and Excel like this one, not N88AF itself. Photo: Gerry Stegmeier, GFDL 1.2, via Wikimedia Commons. Pictures of N88AF itself may be on Planespotters · JetPhotos · Airliners.net. Operator or owner? Send your own picture.
Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N88AF

Cessna 560XL

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesIllinois
Records check, free: 0 to understand, 5 clearWhere is it now

N88AF is a Cessna 560XL, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2008. It has 13 seats. It is registered to Rair LLC, an LLC in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 20, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 10, 2008.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Jet Linx Aviation, LLC, 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 Thursday at 4:49 pm.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
560XL · all 560XLs and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The 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
560-6004
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
2008
Transponder code
AC1B82 (octal 53015602)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
November 20, 2025
Expires
November 30, 2032
Last FAA action
November 20, 2025
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 10, 2008
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01016628

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rair LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
300 N la Salle Dr Ste 1420
Chicago, IL 60654-3413

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.

Connections how N88AF links to the rest of the register

Design
Flies for
Engine
Owner
  • Rair LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
Place
Record
Airworthiness
Analytics
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The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N88AF.json.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N88AF, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Rair LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 20, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated December 10, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 560-6004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N88AF according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N88AF. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data