Embraer S A EMB-545
N280QS is an Embraer S A EMB-545, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2025. It has 11 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 9, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 3, 2025.
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 yesterday at 8:44 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Embraer S A
- Model
- EMB-545 · all EMB-545s 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. This is how the Embraer EMB-545 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
- 55010186
- 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 · Honeywell AS907-3-1E · 7,638 lb thrust
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A2CF6A (octal 50547552)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 9, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- January 6, 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 3, 2025
- FAA region
- —
- Ownership
- Fractional
- FAA record id
- 01526659
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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N280QS links to the rest of the register
- Embraer EMB-545 175 registered
- Embraer S A 850 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- NetJets Aviation, Inc. · charter operator
- Honeywell AS907-3-1E 292 aircraft with this engine series · 7,638 lb thrust
- FAA orders naming the Embraer EMB-545 12 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Embraer EMB-545 95 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Embraer EMB-545 15 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Honeywell AS907-3-1E 1 airworthiness directives
- Report filed on this aircraft: Adc, malfunctioned · 2019-07-09
- Report filed on this aircraft: Circuit Board, malfunctioned · 2010-03-25
- Report filed on this aircraft: Proximity Sensor, malfunctioned · 2009-05-17
- Where N280QS is now · Last seen yesterday at 8:44 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N280QS.json.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N280QS, 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 December 9, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. Fractional ownership is recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated December 3, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 55010186 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N280QS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Dassault Aviation FALCON 2000 (serial 181, cancelled February 24, 2020). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N280QS. 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 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data
