Cessna 560XL
N97AJ is a Cessna 560XL, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2005. It has 13 seats. It is registered to Rukel Aviation LLC, an LLC in St Charles, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 29, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 15, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 560XL · all 560XLs and related versions
- Serial number
- 560-5609
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P&W Canada PW545 SER · 3,952 lb thrust
- Seats
- 13
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- AD8155 (octal 53300525)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 29, 2024
- Expires
- July 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- September 6, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · December 15, 2005
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00220819
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rukel Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1200 Rukel Way
St Charles, IL 60174-3427
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 4
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N97AJ, 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 Rukel Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 29, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated December 15, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 560-5609 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N97AJ was previously assigned to 4 other aircraft: Piper PA-23-250 (serial 27-7305052, cancelled August 23, 2016); Bell 206L-3 (serial 51357, cancelled April 29, 1996); Bell 206B-III (serial 4297, cancelled May 23, 1994). 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 N97AJ. 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 August 27, 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