{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1987-11-10","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-12-29","city":"RIPLEY","country_code":"US","county_code":"035","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":"2028-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"business-jets","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-07-01","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2076607","mode_s_code":"51577564","mode_s_hex":"A6FF74","model":"S550","n_number":"N550AJ","name":"COLA EXPRESS LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Tampa","damage":"","date":"2014-10-04","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA15IA008","probable_cause":"The lack of flat roller bearings in the two elevator trim tab actuators and maintenance personnel\u2019s inadequate lubrication of the left elevator trim tab actuator, both of which resulted in the overstress fracture of the left internal screw and subsequent in-flight failure of the pitch trim system.","registration":"N550AJ","state":"FL","summary":"Incident on October 4, 2014 at Tampa, FL: no injuries.","type":"INC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N550AJ 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 Cola Express LLC, an LLC in Ripley, West Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 29, 2021 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated November 10, 1987.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Cola Express LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 29, 2021, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for transport, dated November 10, 1987, consistent with the 1987 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S550-0141 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N550AJ according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N550AJ: Incident on October 4, 2014 at Tampa, FL: no injuries. 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":"S550-0141","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"WV","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 27","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turbofan","type_engine_code":"5","unique_id":"00245540","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N550AJ","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1987,"zip":"252710027"}