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N3157J

Airbus Canada Lp BD-500-1A11

Valid New York

N3157J is an Airbus Canada Lp BD-500-1A11, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2024. It has 153 seats. It is registered to Jetblue Airways CORP, a corporation in Long Island City, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 9, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated February 9, 2024.

Aircraft

Maker
Airbus Canada Lp
Model
BD-500-1A11 · all BD-500-1A11s and related versions
Serial number
55263
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · P & W PW1524G SERIE · 24,400 lb thrust
Seats
153
Year built
2024
Transponder code
A35CBA (octal 50656272)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 9, 2024
Expires
February 28, 2031
Last FAA action
February 9, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · February 9, 2024
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
01439416

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Jetblue Airways CORP
Type
Corporation
Address
27-01 Queens Plz N
Long Island City, NY 11101-4020

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 2

2006-10-27Robinson Helicopter R44 II · exported to Canada · Valid, assigned to the manufacturer under its dealer certificate
1973-08-13Cessna 150 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N3157J, 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 Jetblue Airways CORP, a corporation, certificate issued February 9, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated February 9, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 55263 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N3157J was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R44 II (serial 11500, cancelled October 27, 2006); Cessna 150 (serial 150-65857, cancelled August 13, 1973). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N3157J. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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