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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Airbus Canada Lp BD-500-1A11
N3280J is an Airbus Canada Lp BD-500-1A11, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2025. 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 November 18, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated November 18, 2025.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 8:55 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Canada Lp
- Model
- BD-500-1A11 · all BD-500-1A11s 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. The A220: an aluminium-lithium fuselage with composite wings. This is how the Airbus BD-500 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
- 55381
- 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 · P & W PW1524G SERIE · 24,400 lb thrust
- Seats
- 153
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A38E69 (octal 50707151)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 18, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 18, 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 · November 18, 2025
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01529234
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jetblue Airways CORP
- 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
- 2701 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 1
Connections how N3280J links to the rest of the register
- Airbus BD-500 186 registered
- Airbus Canada Lp 186 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney PW1524G SERIE 59 aircraft with this engine series · 24,400 lb thrust
- Type certificate T00008NY · held by Airbus Canada LP
- Jetblue Airways CORP 265 aircraft in the fleet
- Long Island City, NY 283 aircraft registered in this town
- New York 6,669 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Airbus BD-500 82 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Airbus BD-500 1,404 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Airbus BD-500 17 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney PW1524G SERIE 13 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney PW1524G SERIE 23 reports since 1995
- Where N3280J is now · Last seen yesterday at 8:55 pm.
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The public federal record on N3280J, 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 Jetblue Airways CORP, a corporation, certificate issued November 18, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated November 18, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 55381 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3280J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150G (serial 15065980, cancelled September 10, 2012). 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 N3280J. 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