{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1981-02-19","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-10-16","city":"HOUSTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"201","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":"2032-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"business-jets","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-10-16","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2076603","mode_s_code":"53324337","mode_s_hex":"ADA8DF","model":"501","n_number":"N98AV","name":"RIVERWAY CAPITAL LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N98AV is a Cessna 501, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Riverway Capital LLC, an LLC in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 16, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 19, 1981.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Riverway Capital LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 16, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 501-0177 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N98AV was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Aviat Inc PITTS S-2B (serial 5302, cancelled December 24, 1996); Aviat Inc PITTS S-2B (serial 5286, cancelled March 2, 1994); Aviat Inc PITTS S-2B (serial 5255, cancelled July 30, 1992). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N98AV. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":8,"serial_number":"501-0177","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"5005 RIVERWAY DR STE 440","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turbofan","type_engine_code":"5","unique_id":"00131682","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N98AV","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"770562123"}