{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2015-02-20","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-11-05","city":"PETERSBURG","country_code":"US","county_code":"730","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Loan or lien (security agreement)","doc_type_code":"S/A","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-18"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52194","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"P&W CANADA","engine_model":"JT15D-4B","engine_thrust_lb":2500,"expiration_date":"2032-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"business-jets","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-11-05","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2076607","mode_s_code":"51457542","mode_s_hex":"A65F62","model":"S550","n_number":"N51DA","name":"CENTRAL VIRGINIA AVIATION INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"BAKER","damage":"DEST","date":"2001-04-28","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"LAX01LA141","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to maintain an adequate airspeed while maneuvering at low altitude, which led to an inadvertent stall/spin.  The wind gusts were a factor.","registration":"N51DA","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on April 28, 2001 at Baker, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N51DA 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 Central Virginia Aviation INC, a corporation in Petersburg, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 5, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated February 20, 2015. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Central Virginia Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 5, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 20, 2015, 28 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 S5500134 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N51DA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Motley David M RV6A (serial 24195, cancelled January 8, 2002); Van Dijk Robert S GLASAIR II SRG (serial 51549, cancelled October 27, 1993). 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":"1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 18, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N51DA: Accident on April 28, 2001 at Baker, CA: fatal, destroyed (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":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":8,"serial_number":"S5500134","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"VA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"6775 BECK CHAPPELL DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turbofan","type_engine_code":"5","unique_id":"00125570","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N51DA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1987,"zip":"23803"}