Cessna 501
N98AV is a Cessna 501, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Riverway Capital LLC, an LLC in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 16, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 19, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 501 · all 501s and related versions
- Serial number
- 501-0177
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- ADA8DF (octal 53324337)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 16, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 16, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 19, 1981
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00131682
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Riverway Capital LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 5005 Riverway Dr Ste 440
Houston, TX 77056-2123
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 3
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N98AV, 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 Riverway Capital LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 16, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 501-0177 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N98AV was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Aviat Inc PITTS S-2B (serial 5302, cancelled December 24, 1996); Aviat Inc PITTS S-2B (serial 5286, cancelled March 2, 1994); Aviat Inc PITTS S-2B (serial 5255, cancelled July 30, 1992). 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 N98AV. 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