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N1280A

Dassault Aviation FALCON 900EX

Valid Illinois

N1280A is a Dassault Aviation FALCON 900EX, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2008. It has 21 seats. It is registered to Thrasher Sky LLC, an LLC in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 4, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated November 21, 2008. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).

Aircraft

Maker
Dassault Aviation
Model
FALCON 900EX · all FALCON 900EXs and related versions
Serial number
221
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 3 motors · Honeywell TFE731-60-1C · 4,525 lb thrust
Seats
21
Year built
2008
Transponder code
A073C3 (octal 50071703)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 4, 2025
Expires
September 30, 2032
Last FAA action
June 11, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · November 21, 2008
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01017164

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Thrasher Sky LLC
Type
LLC
Address
One N Wacker Dr Ste 1650
Chicago, IL 60606

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 1

2026-08-31Loan or lien (security agreement)

Earlier use of this number 2

1998-01-27Cessna 525 · exported to United Kingdom · Valid registration
1955-11-25Piper PA-18 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N1280A, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Thrasher Sky LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 4, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated November 21, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 221 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N1280A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 525 (serial 5250177, cancelled January 27, 1998); Piper PA-18 (serial 18-1084, cancelled November 25, 1955). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

ATTENTIONRecent registry documents

1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (August 31, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N1280A. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data