N500SW

Earlier aircraft with this registration

Registrations are reused. These records predate the airframe built in 2022 and belong to earlier aircraft that carried N500SW.

• June 7, 2012Accident

  While the first officer was flying the airplane on a visual approach to the airport located in a steep mountain valley, the tower controller informed him that the pilot of a Citation that had landed about 10 minutes earlier had reported low-level windshear with a 15-knot loss of airspeed on short final.

  Learjet 60

  The first officer's failure to maintain adequate airspeed and his exceedance of the airplane's critical angle-of-attack during the final approach in known low-level windshear conditions, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall. Full accident record