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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Gulfstream Aerospace Corp GVI (G650ER)
N473US is a Gulfstream Aerospace Corp GVI (G650ER), a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2016. It has 22 seats. It is registered to U S Department of Homeland Security, a government body in Arlington, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 15, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated May 2, 2026.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 5:46 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Gulfstream Aerospace Corp
- Model
- GVI (G650ER) · all GVI (G650ER)s 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 Gulfstream GVI (G650ER) 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
- 6242
- 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 BR 700 SERIES · 14,750 lb thrust
- Seats
- 22
- Year built
- 2016
- Transponder code
- A5CE12 (octal 51347022)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 15, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 15, 2026
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Research and developmentFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 2, 2026
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01219770
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- U S Department of Homeland Security
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- C/O Daedalus Aviation
1616 Fort Myer Dr Ste 1500
Arlington, VA 22209
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N473US links to the rest of the register
- Gulfstream GVI (G650ER) 291 registered
- Gulfstream Aerospace Corp 1,090 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rolls-Royce BR 700 series 345 aircraft with this engine series · 14,750 lb thrust
- Type certificate T00015AT · held by Gulfstream Aerospace CORP
- U S Department Of Homeland Security 8 aircraft in the fleet
- Arlington, VA 83 aircraft registered in this town
- Virginia 5,972 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Rolls-Royce BR 700 series 811 reports since 1995
- Where N473US is now · Last seen yesterday at 5:46 pm.
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The public federal record on N473US, 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 U S Department of Homeland Security, a government body, certificate issued April 15, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 2, 2026, 10 years after the 2016 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6242 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N473US according to the deregistered file. [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 N473US. 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