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N498CA, a Bombardier Inc CL-600-2B19
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N498CA

Bombardier Inc CL-600-2B19

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesUtah

N498CA is a Bombardier Inc CL-600-2B19, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2003. It has 55 seats. It is registered to Skywest Airlines INC, a corporation in St George, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 2, 2020 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 8, 2003.

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Aircraft

Maker
Bombardier Inc
Model
CL-600-2B19 · all CL-600-2B19s 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 Bombardier CL-600 Challenger and CRJ 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
7792
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 · Ge CF34 SERIES · 9,140 lb thrust
Seats
55
Year built
2003
Transponder code
A62E03 (octal 51427003)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
December 2, 2020
Expires
December 31, 2027
Last FAA action
April 7, 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 · May 8, 2003
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00046229

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Skywest Airlines INC
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
444 S River Rd
St George, UT 84790-2085

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

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The public federal record on N498CA, 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 Skywest Airlines INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 2, 2020, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated May 8, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7792 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N498CA according to the deregistered file. [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 N498CA: Incident on September 28, 2010 at Milwaukee, WI: no injuries, minor damage. 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

ENG10IA055Incident on September 28, 2010 at Milwaukee, WI: no injuries, minor damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bombardier CL600 2B19 · operated under 121

The failure of the left main landing gear (MLG) to extend normally and manually for reasons that could not be conclusively determined.

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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 October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data