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A Cessna 500 Citation I, the same model family as N999AM
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N999AM

Cessna 500

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesAlabama

N999AM is a Cessna 500, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1974. It has 8 seats. It is registered to N999Am LLC, an LLC in Decatur, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 16, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated January 31, 1975.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
500 · all 500s 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 500 Citation I 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
500-0232
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 JT15D-1 · 2,200 lb thrust
Seats
8
Year built
1974
Cruising speed
301 mph
Transponder code
ADF41E (octal 53372036)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
December 16, 2025
Expires
December 31, 2032
Last FAA action
December 16, 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 · January 31, 1975
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00700915

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
N999Am 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
1702 Townshend Trce SW
Decatur, AL 35603-3157

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 N999AM links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
  • N999Am LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
Place
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N999AM.json.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N999AM, 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 N999Am LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 16, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated January 31, 1975, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 500-0232 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N999AM 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 N999AM. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data