Cessna 525 — registry & accident history
Compiled from FAA & NTSB records · as of Jul 21, 2026
There are 655 Cessna 525 airframes on record (built 1993–2015), 437 currently registered. 9 have one or more NTSB accident records (9 records total, 4 with a fatal highest-injury classification). Data as of Jul 21, 2026.
Recent Cessna 525 accidents
The airplane’s impact with a bird during approach.
The pilot's intentional flight into his residence.
The pilot's loss of control while operating in night instrument meteorological conditions as a result of spatial disorientation. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's decision to operate an airplane after consuming alcohol and his resulting intoxication, which degraded the pilot's judgment and decision-making.
The pilot's loss of control due to spatial disorientation while operating in instrument meteorological conditions, which resulted in an exceedance of the airplane's design stress limitations, and a subsequent in-flight breakup. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's reported inflight instrumentation anomaly, the origin of which could not be determined during the investigation.
The pilot’s descent below the published minimum descent altitude for the instrument approach procedure, which resulted in impact with a utility pole.