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A Embraer EMB-145 ERJ 145, the same model family as N271BC
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N271BC

Embraer EMB-145XR

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesFlorida

N271BC is an Embraer EMB-145XR, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2002. It has 55 seats. It is registered to Ibc Airways INC, a corporation in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 26, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated February 25, 2005.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of IBC AIRWAYS, Inc., so it can be flown for hire.

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Aircraft

Maker
Embraer
Model
EMB-145XR · all EMB-145XRs 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 Embraer EMB-145 ERJ 145 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
145660
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-Royc AE3007 SER · 6,442 lb thrust
Seats
55
Year built
2002
Transponder code
A2AA4F (octal 50525117)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
February 26, 2025
Expires
February 29, 2032
Last FAA action
October 1, 2025
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 · February 25, 2005
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00017039

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Ibc Airways 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
610 SW 34Th St
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33315-3623
Charter N271BC with IBC AIRWAYS, 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.

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The public federal record on N271BC, 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 Ibc Airways INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 26, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 25, 2005, 3 years after the 2002 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 145660 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N271BC 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 N271BC: Accident on March 20, 2026 at Les Cayes, OF: no injuries. 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

GAA26WA141Accident on March 20, 2026 at Les Cayes, OF: no injuries.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Embraer EMB-145XR · operated under 135

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 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