Dassault Aviation FALCON 900EX
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.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Sunset 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 Thursday at 11:49 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Dassault Aviation
- Model
- FALCON 900EX · all FALCON 900EXs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. This is how the Dassault FALCON 900 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
- 221
- 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, 3 motors · Honeywell TFE731-60-1C · 4,525 lb thrust
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 21
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- A073C3 (octal 50071703)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 4, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 11, 2026
- 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 21, 2008
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01017164
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thrasher Sky 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
- 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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N1280A links to the rest of the register
- Dassault FALCON 900 277 registered
- Dassault Aviation 938 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Sunset Aviation LLC · charter operator
- Honeywell TFE731-60-1C 141 aircraft with this engine series · 4,525 lb thrust
- Thrasher Sky LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Chicago, IL 1,566 aircraft registered in this town
- Chicago Midway International · MDW
- Chicago O'Hare International · ORD
- Lansing Municipal · IGQ
- Illinois 8,070 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Dassault FALCON 900 72 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Dassault FALCON 900 250 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Dassault FALCON 900 224 supplemental type certificates
- Where N1280A is now · Last seen Thursday at 11:49 am.
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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.
Valid registration to Thrasher Sky LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 4, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated November 21, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 221 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
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]
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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N1280A. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 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 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data