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N509JB, a Airbus Industrie A320-232
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N509JB

Airbus Industrie A320-232

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesNew York

N509JB is an Airbus Industrie A320-232, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2000. It has 200 seats. It is registered to Jetblue Airways Corporation, a corporation in Long Island City, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 28, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated September 5, 2000.

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Aircraft

Maker
Airbus Industrie
Model
A320-232 · all A320-232s and related versions
Built of
aluminium with composite parts
A mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. Aluminium fuselage and wings, composite tail. This is how the Airbus A320 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
1270
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 · Iae V2500SERIES · 25,000 lb thrust
Seats
200
Year built
2000
Transponder code
A65C29 (octal 51456051)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
February 28, 2024
Expires
February 28, 2031
Last FAA action
February 28, 2024
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 · September 5, 2000
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00975910

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Jetblue Airways Corporation
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
27-01 Queens Plaza North
Long Island City, NY 11101

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N509JB links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Long Island City, NY 283 aircraft registered in this town
  • New York 6,661 aircraft registered

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The public federal record on N509JB, 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 Jetblue Airways Corporation, a corporation, certificate issued February 28, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated September 5, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1270 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N509JB 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 N509JB: Incident on January 21, 2001 at Jamaica, NY: no injuries. 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

NYC01IA068Incident on January 21, 2001 at Jamaica, NY: no injuries.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Airbus Industrie A320-232 · operated under 121

The pilot's decision to perform an auto rollout on a snow contaminated runway, which had not been demonstrated, and which resulted in a loss of directional control, when the capability of the autoland system to maintain directional control was exceeded. Factors were the failure of the control tower to ensure that the results of the latest MU reading were available to the pilots, the crosswind, and the snow covered runway.

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