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Bombardier Inc CL-600-2B16
N251QS is a Bombardier Inc CL-600-2B16, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2022. It has 22 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 16, 2026 and expires on October 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated June 30, 2022. 2 documents are on file: 2 × bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
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.
Where is it now Last seen Friday at 8:55 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bombardier Inc
- Model
- CL-600-2B16 · all CL-600-2B16s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe 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
- 6178
- 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
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A25CA4 (octal 50456244)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 16, 2026
- Expires
- October 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- October 16, 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 · June 30, 2022
- FAA region
- —
- Ownership
- Fractional
- FAA record id
- 01370514
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
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 2
Connections how N251QS links to the rest of the register
- Bombardier CL-600 Challenger and CRJ 1,655 registered
- Bombardier Inc 3,035 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- NetJets Aviation, Inc. · charter operator
- General Electric CF34 series 674 aircraft with this engine series · 9,140 lb thrust
- FAA orders naming the Bombardier CL-600 Challenger and CRJ 486 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bombardier CL-600 Challenger and CRJ 179,529 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bombardier CL-600 Challenger and CRJ 1,582 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the General Electric CF34 series 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the General Electric CF34 series 1,603 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Actuator, defective · 2026-03-30
- Report filed on this aircraft: Handle, jammed · 2025-11-12
- Report filed on this aircraft: Seat Track, corroded · 2017-10-06
- Where N251QS is now · Last seen Friday at 8:55 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N251QS.json.
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The public federal record on N251QS, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, a co-owned, certificate issued October 16, 2026, expires October 31, 2033. Fractional ownership is recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated June 30, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6178 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N251QS according to the deregistered file. [2]
2 documents received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 1, 2026), Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 15, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N251QS. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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