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Gulfstream Aerospace GIV-X (G450)
N499SC is a Gulfstream Aerospace GIV-X (G450), a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2008. It has 22 seats. It is registered to Flying Ace LLC, an LLC in Danville, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 12, 2022 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated August 8, 2008.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of SP Aviation, Inc., so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Gulfstream Aerospace
- Model
- GIV-X (G450) · all GIV-X (G450)s 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. This is how the Gulfstream GIV-X (G450) 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
- 4135
- 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 611-8C · 13,850 lb thrust
- Seats
- 22
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- A6331A (octal 51431432)
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 12, 2022
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 26, 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 · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 8, 2008
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00393629
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Flying Ace 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
- 28 Montecito Dr
Danville, CA 94526-3237
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 N499SC links to the rest of the register
- Gulfstream GIV-X (G450) 237 registered
- Gulfstream Aerospace 1,224 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- SP Aviation, Inc. · charter operator
- Rolls-Royce TAY 611-8C 229 aircraft with this engine series · 13,850 lb thrust
- Flying Ace LLC 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Danville, CA 58 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,610 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Gulfstream GIV-X (G450) 172 reports since 1995
- FAA orders naming the Rolls-Royce TAY 611-8C 4 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N499SC, 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 Flying Ace LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 12, 2022, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated August 8, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4135 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N499SC 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 N499SC. 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