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N97AJ

Cessna 560XL

Valid Illinois

N97AJ is a Cessna 560XL, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2005. It has 13 seats. It is registered to Rukel Aviation LLC, an LLC in St Charles, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 29, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 15, 2005.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
560XL
Serial number
560-5609
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · P&W Canada PW545 SER · 3,952 lb thrust
Seats
13
Year built
2005
Transponder code
AD8155 (octal 53300525)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 29, 2024
Expires
July 31, 2031
Last FAA action
September 6, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · December 15, 2005
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00220819

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rukel Aviation LLC
Type
LLC
Address
1200 Rukel Way
St Charles, IL 60174-3427

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 4

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data