Swearingen SA227-AC
N227LJ is a Swearingen SA227-AC, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1982. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Metro-Jet LLC, an LLC in Downey, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 3, 2003 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 26, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Swearingen
- Model
- SA227-AC · all SA227-ACs and related versions
- Serial number
- AC-522
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · Airesearch TPE331 SERIES · 904 hp
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 1982
- Transponder code
- A1FC05 (octal 50376005)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 3, 2003
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 26, 1982
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00161413
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Metro-Jet LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 9336 Gainford St
Downey, CA 90240-3560
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N227LJ, 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 Metro-Jet LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 3, 2003, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 26, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AC-522 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N227LJ according to the deregistered file. [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 N227LJ. 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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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