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Yaesu FTA550 Handheld VHF Transceiver

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Features

  • NAV/COM with ILS and VOR Navigation
  • Aviation Airband
  • AA Battery Tray only
  • Comes with Headset Adapter
  • NO Rechargeable Battery

Description

The YAESU FTA-550 is packed with features, yet very affordable. Boasting an oversize full dot matrix LCD display, the FTA-550 Airband Transceiver provides full communication on the Aircraft communications Band and additionally provides VOR and ILS navigation features on the "NAV" band. The FTA-550 includes NOAA weather band monitoring and the capability of programming up to 200 memory channels with a quick and easy channel recall feature. The brand new easy to operate menu system is icon driven making it simple to navigate through all of the powerful features this transceiver has to offer. Additionally the FTA-550 can easily be reprogrammed in minutes using the optional PC Programming software and the supplied USB programming cable. Unit comes with a AA battery pack and NOT a rechargeable battery.

Brand: YAESU


Color: Black


Number of Channels: 200


Special Feature: Portable,Waterproof


Frequency Range: 108 to 136.975 MHz


Talking Range Maximum: 5 Miles


Voltage: 3 Volts


Water Resistance Level: Water Resistant


Product Dimensions: 8.6"D x 6.3"W x 3.2"H


Number of Batteries: 2 AA batteries required.


Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No


Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.6 x 6.3 x 3.2 inches; 1.81 Pounds


Item model number ‏ : ‎ NATAL-MR-PN-8748692


Batteries ‏ : ‎ 2 AA batteries required.


Date First Available ‏ : ‎ April 3, 2014


Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Yaesu


Customer Reviews: 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (385)


Item Weight: ‎1.81 pounds


Product Dimensions: ‎8.6 x 6.3 x 3.2 inches


Item model number: ‎NATAL-MR-PN-8748692


Batteries: ‎2 AA batteries required.


Is Discontinued By Manufacturer: ‎No


Waterproof: ‎IPX6


Date First Available: April 3, 2014


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    • Perfect back up radio in or out of the cockpit
Perfect toy for new pilots in their new journey or retired ones who still enjoy atc jargon in their mature years! For the price this is the best value 🙏 P.s. bought an icom for about four times as much as this one,more than forty years ago and still have that piece and intend to donate it to a museum! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2025 by Amazon Customer
    • Works great for what I need it to do.
I bought this radio as a backup for the single COM radio in my airplane. I am based at a tower-controlled airport and my single radio fails, it is much more difficult to get back into the controlled airspace to land. I also wanted to be able to listen in to air show control at events like Oshkosh and other events. I only fly VFR, so I don't need it to work with ATC enroute controllers, most of whom would be located many miles away. I bought the AA version because I didn't want to mess around with a rechargeable battery - I would use this radio relatively rarely and alkaline batteries were all I needed. I also bought a 2nd battery tray for $15, so I can carry a spare set of batteries in their own tray - reviewers that pointed out the difficulty of getting batteries into the tray were correct. I didn't think it was too hard to do on the ground, but I wouldn't want to do it in the air. I also bought a PTT switch for it. I have since returned it. I have been having periodic problems with my COM radio, and it happened again today. Tower was reporting "barely readable" and was struggling to hear me. I pulled our the FTA550 and plugged it into the cigarette lighter socket I use for 12VDC in the plane. With the PTT switch, my transmissions were also nearly unreadable, which was also the case with the radio's side tone. I was using my Dave Clark 13.4s using the included headset adapter (Thanks for providing all of the accessories, Yaesu!!) and the received audio was strong and crisp. I removed the optional PTT switch (which is being returned to Amazon for a refund) and just used the PTT on the side of the radio. It worked just fine. Using the included BNC antenna, Tower was able to read me from eight miles out, but not as strong as usual. At five miles they were reading me loud and clear. It probably helps that my plane has a bubble canopy that lets the antenna transmit without being blocked by aluminum wings or fuselage, but I am still going to get and mount an external antenna, or put an A-B switch between my primary COM and the FTA550. This radio provided the redundancy that I needed at a very reasonable cost. I would not use it for IFR in less I had no other choice, and I would definitely install an external antenna if I thought I would ever have to use in for that kind of flying. I have not tried using the VOR function and don't anticipate a need for it because I also carry a backup GPS. I might try it someday to see how it works, just in case. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2020 by Cabot Bennett
    • Reasonably good radio with caveats
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The first unit I purchased was DOA. The speaker just did not produce sound. I returned and replaced that one, and the second copy is working fine. I'm using this radio just to monitor traffic during my UAV flights, so I can't really speak to range or transmit function. For my purposes the radio works fine, although the menu system is straight out of the 1990s. You can download software which is also crude by today's standards in order to upload frequency data to the radio for storage. It worked, but only if I was able to make a connection over the USB cable within a two second open period. There's a bug in the software which forces it to timeout very quickly. I've had no trouble picking up pattern traffic when nearby an airport using the CTAF frequency. Intelligibility is fair but not great. The radio is fairly heavy with batteries installed but does have a belt clip. The weather frequencies also work, although in retrospect they aren't really that helpful. The squelch works well once you recognize how to make the adjustment. Overall this is a reasonably good radio, but the design is decades old and the manufacturing quality may be uneven. The price is high for what it is, but thsi market is small. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2023 by John P. John P.
    • Great value
Very sensitive receiver. Should perform well as a backup comms solution.
Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2025 by johnb
    • Gotta have it
Great radio good quality sounds clear
Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2025 by Iddy Montana
    • On the ground I've been able to get 25 mile range picking up the bravo from my house with good clarity and probably more if I wa
This is my first hand held so I really don't have any other radio to compare it to, but with that said I been trying it out for it's reliability. On the ground I've been able to get 25 mile range picking up the bravo from my house with good clarity and probably more if I wanted to push it further . At 11 nautical miles out at 3500 ft I was able to pickup the attis and it was scatchy but readable .I then ask for a radio check from a delta atc. The signal was weak but we were able to communicate . I was also able to use the vor on the ground and it worked great 5 miles out. When I get around to it I'll try the vor in the air . This radio for me met and surpassed my expectations . I have rechargeable battery in the radio and they last pretty long even though the battery indicator is a little off. The one thing I forgot to mention is I used a base antenna instead of the original one when I was 3500 feet in the air. Don't know how the original antenna would have worked. Overall for the price it's a good investment for a backup radio. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2015 by Woody
    • Meh. It's not great, and way over priced.
This is an okay radio. Very sensitive. Often I've got the squelch all the way up to cut out the constant static being received. Saving frequencies is okay, but not easy to rename. Battery pack is trash. For the cost of this radio they could have included a rechargeable battery and the garbage AA battery pack. I picked up an old Icom radio at a swap meet that is way better. I wish I hadn't wasted money on this radio. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2025 by NH Grouch
    • Very nice
I've been using this awhile . I wanted to make sure it was going to work out before giving it a rating. Works great, no problems.
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2025 by peter e woodward 2

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