Israel Aircraft Industries GALAXY
N1221Q is an Israel Aircraft Industries GALAXY, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2001. It has 19 seats. It is registered to Nonstop Leasing LLC, an LLC in Elmhurst, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 14, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated November 25, 2002.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Priester Aviation, LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen October 30 at 3:05 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Israel Aircraft Industries
- Model
- GALAXY · all GALAXYs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Israel Aircraft Industries GALAXY family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 045
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbofanFAA type of engine code 5 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · P&W Canada PW306A · 6,040 lb thrust
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 19
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A05DAA (octal 50056652)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 14, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 25, 2002
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00403954
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nonstop Leasing LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 776 N York St
Elmhurst, IL 60126-1356
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N1221Q links to the rest of the register
- Israel Aircraft Industries GALAXY 19 registered
- Israel Aircraft Industries 304 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Priester Aviation, LLC · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PW306A 151 aircraft with this engine series · 6,040 lb thrust
- Nonstop Leasing LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Elmhurst, IL 16 aircraft registered in this town
- Illinois 8,072 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Israel Aircraft Industries GALAXY 19 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Israel Aircraft Industries GALAXY 90 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Israel Aircraft Industries GALAXY 64 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW306A 1 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW306A 198 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Battery Pack, overheated · 2023-04-01
- Report filed on this aircraft: Outflow Valve, failed · 2023-01-06
- Where N1221Q is now · Last seen October 30 at 3:05 pm.
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The public federal record on N1221Q, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Nonstop Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 14, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated November 25, 2002, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 045 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1221Q was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150L (serial 15072521, cancelled November 23, 1983). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N1221Q: Accident on December 12, 1982 at Big Bear Lake, CA: minor injuries, destroyed. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 150L · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data