{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1993-05-27","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2017-06-20","city":"SMITHFIELD","country_code":"US","county_code":"101","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52112","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"P&W CANADA","engine_model":"JT15D-4","engine_thrust_lb":2500,"expiration_date":"2027-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"business-jets","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-01-22","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2076607","mode_s_code":"50176633","mode_s_hex":"A0FD9B","model":"S550","n_number":"N163J","name":"N163J LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"PRESCOTT","damage":"SUBS","date":"1995-08-03","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"LAX95LA277","probable_cause":"the pilot's failure to properly lean the engine for best power, his premature rotation of an over gross aircraft on an uphill runway, and his delay in aborting the takeoff.","registration":"N163J","state":"AZ","summary":"Accident on August 3, 1995 at Prescott, AZ: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N163J is a Cessna S550, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1987. It has 8 seats. It is registered to N163J LLC, an LLC in Smithfield, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 20, 2017 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 27, 1993.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to N163J LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 20, 2017, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 27, 1993, 6 years after the 1987 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S550-0122 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N163J was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Jenkins Harry Tarleton Jr LONG EZ (serial 1135, cancelled March 28, 1997); Douglas DC3C-S1C3G (serial 19402, cancelled July 8, 1970). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N163J: Accident on August 3, 1995 at Prescott, AZ: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":8,"serial_number":"S550-0122","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3441 SWIFT CREEK RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turbofan","type_engine_code":"5","unique_id":"00584632","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N163J","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1987,"zip":"275776902"}