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A Bombardier BD-700 Global Express, 5000 and 6000, the same model family as N168QS
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 11, 2026
N168QS

Bombardier Inc BD-700-1A10

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes

N168QS is a Bombardier Inc BD-700-1A10, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2022. It has 23 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 22, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 27, 2022.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of NetJets Aviation, Inc., so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.

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Aircraft

Maker
Bombardier Inc
Model
BD-700-1A10 · all BD-700-1A10s and related versions
Built of
aluminium with composite parts
A mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. This is how the Bombardier BD-700 Global Express, 5000 and 6000 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
60072
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 · Rolls Deut BR700-710A220 · 14,750 lb thrust
Fuel
Jet A
Seats
23
Year built
2022
Transponder code
A110D5 (octal 50210325)

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 22, 2026
Expires
September 30, 2033
Last FAA action
September 22, 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 · December 27, 2022
FAA region
—
Ownership
Fractional
FAA record id
01387718

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Withheld at the owner's request
Type
Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
Charter N168QS with NetJets Aviation, Inc.:

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.

Connections how N168QS links to the rest of the register

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The public federal record on N168QS, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, a co-owned, certificate issued September 22, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. Fractional ownership is recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated December 27, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 60072 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N168QS 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N168QS: Incident on May 24, 2026 at Atlantic City, NJ. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

ENG26LA023Incident on May 24, 2026 at Atlantic City, NJ.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bombardier INC BD-700-1A10

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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