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Cessna S550 · 1988 · Shreveport, LA
N550DS is a 1988 Cessna S550 (serial S550-0154), registered to Metro Aviation Inc (corporation) in Shreveport, LA. Its FAA registration is recorded as v and expires August 2030; the airworthiness certificate dates from December 1997 (28 years ago). It carries 2 P&W Canada JT15D-4 engines rated at 2,500 lbf each (5,000 lbf total), the engine on 64% of registered Cessna S550s. Its Mode-S transponder broadcasts the ICAO 24-bit address A6FFC7. It is one of 94 Cessna S550 aircraft on the FAA registry. Metro Aviation Inc holds 69 aircraft on the registry.
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55 of the 86 registered Cessna S550 carry this engine (64%), across 6 engine variants on the type.
Source: FAA engine reference (ENGINE.txt), matched on this registration's engine code.
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