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N161JG

Canadair Ltd CL-600-2B16

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesDelaware

N161JG is a Canadair Ltd CL-600-2B16, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1988. It has 22 seats. It is registered to Ial CORP, a corporation in Lewes, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 9, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated September 22, 1988.

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Aircraft

Maker
Canadair Ltd
Model
CL-600-2B16 · all CL-600-2B16s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Bombardier CL-600 Challenger and CRJ 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
5028
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 · Ge CF34 SERIES · 9,140 lb thrust
Seats
22
Year built
1988
Transponder code
A0F634 (octal 50173064)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
December 9, 2024
Expires
December 31, 2031
Last FAA action
December 9, 2024
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 · September 22, 1988
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00354292

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Ial CORP
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
16192 Coastal Hwy
Lewes, DE 19958-3608

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N161JG links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
  • Ial CORP 31 aircraft in the fleet
  • Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to August 5, 2027
Place
  • Lewes, DE 897 aircraft registered in this town
  • Delaware 10,952 aircraft registered

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N161JG.json.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N161JG, 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 Ial CORP, a corporation, certificate issued December 9, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated September 22, 1988, consistent with the 1988 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5028 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N161JG according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N161JG. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data