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N400FJ, a Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 2, 2026
N400FJ

Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesCalifornia

N400FJ is a Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2002. It has 22 seats. It is registered to Ptj Associates LLC, an LLC in South Pasadena, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 17, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated September 24, 2002.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Prime Jet, LLC, 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 3:27 pm.

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Aircraft

Maker
Gulfstream Aerospace
Model
G-IV · all G-IVs 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 Gulfstream G-IV Gulfstream IV 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
1494
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 TAY 611SER · 12,450 lb thrust
Seats
22
Year built
2002
Transponder code
A4AD27 (octal 51126447)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
August 17, 2017
Expires
August 31, 2027
Last FAA action
August 29, 2023
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 · September 24, 2002
FAA region
Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00624004

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Ptj Associates LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
1738 Camino Lindo
South Pasadena, CA 91030-4132
Charter N400FJ with Prime Jet, LLC:

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

2000-04-06Glaser-Dirks DG-400 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Connections how N400FJ links to the rest of the register

Design
Flies for
Engine
Owner
Place
  • South Pasadena, CA 12 aircraft registered in this town
  • California 27,708 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N400FJ, 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 Ptj Associates LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 17, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated September 24, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1494 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N400FJ was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Glaser-Dirks DG-400 (serial 4-78, cancelled April 6, 2000). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N400FJ: Accident on May 1, 1999 at New Milford, CT: minor injuries, destroyed. 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

NYC99LA102Accident on May 1, 1999 at New Milford, CT: minor injuries, destroyed.serial on NTSB record: 4-78

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Glaser-Dirks DG-400 · operated under 091

The manufacturer's use of inadequate adhesive material which resulted in the de-bonding and subsequent failure of the wing spar pin-lock assembly.

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 November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data