Cessna 550
N88AJ is a Cessna 550, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1999. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Marathon Merchant LLC, an LLC in Waukesha, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 17, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated September 30, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 550 · all 550s and related versions
- Serial number
- 550-0885
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P&W Canada 530A · 4,000 lb thrust
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- AC1B85 (octal 53015605)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 17, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 17, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · September 30, 1999
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00315912
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Marathon Merchant LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2421 Aviation Rd
Waukesha, WI 53188-6900
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N88AJ, 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 Marathon Merchant LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 17, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated September 30, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 550-0885 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N88AJ 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N88AJ. 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