Cessna 680
N88JJ is a Cessna 680, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2009. It has 9 seats. It is registered to Sterling Motors LTD, a corporation in Newport Beach, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 28, 2013 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated April 21, 2009.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Advanced Air 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 October 16 at 12:22 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 680 · all 680s 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 680 Citation Sovereign and Latitude 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
- 680-0277
- 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 PW306C · 6,040 lb thrust
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 9
- Year built
- 2009
- Transponder code
- AC1C4D (octal 53016115)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 28, 2013
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- 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 · April 21, 2009
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01027104
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sterling Motors LTD
- 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
- 3000 W Pacific Coast Highway
Newport Beach, CA 92663
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 N88JJ links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 680 Citation Sovereign and Latitude 698 registered
- Cessna 72,677 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Advanced Air LLC · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PW306C 213 aircraft with this engine series · 6,040 lb thrust
- Sterling Motors LTD 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Newport Beach, CA 133 aircraft registered in this town
- California 28,158 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 680 Citation Sovereign and Latitude 9 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 680 Citation Sovereign and Latitude 4,659 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 680 Citation Sovereign and Latitude 66 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW306C 249 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Smoke Detector, false indication · 2024-03-04
- Where N88JJ is now · Last seen October 16 at 12:22 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N88JJ.json.
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The public federal record on N88JJ, 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 Sterling Motors LTD, a corporation, certificate issued May 28, 2013, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated April 21, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 680-0277 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N88JJ 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 N88JJ. 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 November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data
