Embraer Executive Aircraft Inc EMB-505
N491QS is an Embraer Executive Aircraft Inc EMB-505, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2025. It has 8 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 6, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for commuter, dated August 5, 2025.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of NetJets Aviation, Inc., 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 today at 9:06 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Embraer Executive Aircraft Inc
- Model
- EMB-505 · all EMB-505s 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 Embraer EMB-505 Phenom 300 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
- 50500880
- 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 PW535E1 · 3,478 lb thrust
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A6153E (octal 51412476)
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 6, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 3, 2026
- 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 · CommuterFAA certificate purpose code C (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 5, 2025
- FAA region
- —
- Ownership
- Fractional
- FAA record id
- 01511643
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
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.
Connections how N491QS links to the rest of the register
- Embraer EMB-505 Phenom 300 678 registered
- Embraer Executive Aircraft Inc 609 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- NetJets Aviation, Inc. · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PW535E1 218 aircraft with this engine series · 3,478 lb thrust
- FAA orders naming the Embraer EMB-505 Phenom 300 17 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Embraer EMB-505 Phenom 300 1,940 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Embraer EMB-505 Phenom 300 47 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW535E1 1 airworthiness directives
- Report filed on this aircraft: Brake, locked · 2026-10-08
- Where N491QS is now · Last seen today at 9:06 am.
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The public federal record on N491QS, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, a co-owned, certificate issued August 6, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. Fractional ownership is recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for commuter, dated August 5, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 50500880 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N491QS 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 N491QS. 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 November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data