No free picture of N215BD or its model is known to the site yet; spotters' pictures may be on Planespotters · JetPhotos · Airliners.net. Operator or owner? Send your own picture.
Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Raytheon Aircraft Company 390
N215BD is a Raytheon Aircraft Company 390, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Cbms INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 10, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 25, 2007.
Where is it now Last seen October 17 at 3:27 pm.
Last seen October 17 at 3:27 pm. Checking whether it is in the air right now…
Aircraft broadcast their own position; volunteer receivers pool what they hear. Owners who have asked the FAA not to be displayed are not shown.
Flight history: where it flew in the last seven days · follow it on the live map
Aircraft
- Maker
- Raytheon Aircraft Company
- Model
- 390 · all 390s 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. The Premier: a carbon-fibre fuselage with aluminium wings. This is how the Raytheon Aircraft Company 390 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
- RB-183
- 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 · Williams FJ44-2A · 2,300 lb thrust
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A1CC32 (octal 50346062)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 10, 2023
- Expires
- November 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 4, 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 25, 2007
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00284849
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cbms INC
- 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
- 1209 N Orange St
Wilmington, DE 19801-1120
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 N215BD links to the rest of the register
- Raytheon Aircraft Company 390 130 registered
- Raytheon Aircraft Company 2,138 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Williams International FJ44-2A 118 aircraft with this engine series · 2,300 lb thrust
- Cbms INC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Wilmington, DE 7,375 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,965 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Raytheon Aircraft Company 390 7 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Williams International FJ44-2A 1 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Williams International FJ44-2A 63 reports since 1995
- Where N215BD is now · Last seen October 17 at 3:27 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N215BD.json.
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N215BD, 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 Cbms INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 10, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RB-183 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N215BD was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Crain Jac A BD-4 (serial 215, cancelled September 18, 2017). 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 N215BD: Accident on February 19, 2012 at Clarinda, IA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Crain Jac A BD-4 · operated under 091
A loss of airplane control for reasons that could not be determined because postaccident examination of the airplane and engine did not reveal any anomalies that would have precluded normal operation.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data