N3RB (Cessna 560) — routes, history & safety record

Registrations are reused: the FAA register shows one earlier aircraft with this mark, the last registration expired on September 25, 2012.

FlightFinder has no observed route profile for this registration. The documented safety events below are available independently of live flight tracking.

Safety history

January 9, 2021Accident
During the first 15 minutes of the flight, the pilot of the complex, high performance, jet airplane appeared to have difficulty maintaining the headings and altitudes assigned by air traffic controllers, and throughout the flight, responded intermittently to controller instructions.
Cessna 560 Citation V · 1 fatalities

Earlier aircraft with this registration

Registrations are reused. These records predate the airframe built in 1989 and belong to earlier aircraft that carried N3RB.

September 17, 1985Accident
A DISTRESS MESSAGE WAS RECEIVED FROM THE PILOT STATING HE WAS 100 MILES SOUTH OF GRAND ISLE, LA, AND HAD LOST AN ENG ANDWAS UNABLE TO MAINTAIN ALTITUDE. A SECOND MESSAGE WAS RECEIVED SHORTLY AFTERWARDS STATING THAT THE AIRCRAFT WAS AT 1500 FEET AND THE PILOT WAS PREPARING TO DITCH THE AIRCRAFT. NO FURTHER CONTACTS AND NO ELT SIGNALS WERE HEARD.
Swearingen SA-226T · 1 fatalities
Occurrence #1: missing aircraft Phase of operation: unknown Findings 1. (c) reason for occurrence undetermined Full accident record