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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Eclipse Aviation Corp EA500
N48KY is an Eclipse Aviation Corp EA500, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2008. It has 6 seats. It is registered to N48Ky LLC, an LLC in Medina, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 22, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 27, 2008.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Eclipse Aviation Corp
- Model
- EA500 · all EA500s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. Aluminium joined by friction-stir welding rather than rivets. This is how the Eclipse Aviation Corp EA500 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
- 000178
- 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 Canada PW610F-A · 950 lb thrust
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- A5E738 (octal 51363470)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 22, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 27, 2008
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01003230
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- N48Ky 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
- 1185 Forecastle Trl
Medina, OH 44256-4326
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N48KY links to the rest of the register
- Eclipse Aviation Corp EA500 220 registered
- Eclipse Aviation Corp 224 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PW610F-A 243 aircraft with this engine series · 950 lb thrust
- N48Ky LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Medina, OH 80 aircraft registered in this town
- Medina Municipal · 1G5
- Ohio 8,533 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW610F-A 143 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N48KY.json.
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The public federal record on N48KY, 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 N48Ky LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 22, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 27, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 000178 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N48KY 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 N48KY. 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