{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-06-03","city":"ORLANDO","country_code":"US","county_code":"095","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2032-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"business-jets","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-06-03","maker":"Raytheon Aircraft Company","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT COMPANY","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7150010","mode_s_code":"51577511","mode_s_hex":"A6FF49","model":"400A","n_number":"N55YS","name":"SUPERIOR AVIATION INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Columbia","damage":"DEST","date":"2007-01-05","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"ATL07FA031","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to follow approach procedures by descending below the prescribed descision height altitude resulting in an in-flight collision with trees and the ground.\n\nThis report was modified on January 25, 2008.","registration":"N55YS","state":"SC","summary":"Accident on January 5, 2007 at Columbia, SC: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N55YS is a Raytheon Aircraft Company 400A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Superior Aviation INC, a corporation in Orlando, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 3, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Superior Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 3, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RK366 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N55YS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182P (serial 18265169, cancelled March 7, 2007). 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 N55YS: Accident on January 5, 2007 at Columbia, SC: fatal, destroyed (3 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":10,"serial_number":"RK366","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"FL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"7512 DR PHILLIPS BLVD STE 50-363","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turbofan","type_engine_code":"5","unique_id":"00071719","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N55YS","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"328195420"}