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Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV (G400)
N516MC is a Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV (G400), a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2004. It has 22 seats. It is registered to Pjk Aviation LLC, an LLC in Great Neck, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 11, 2018 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated August 23, 2018.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Talon Air, LLC, 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
- G-IV (G400) · all G-IV (G400)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 G-IV (G400) 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
- 1531
- 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 611-8 · 13,850 lb thrust
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 22
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A678CF (octal 51474317)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 11, 2018
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 27, 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 · August 23, 2018
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00065469
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pjk Aviation 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
- 60 Cuttermill Rd Ste 200
Great Neck, NY 11021-3132
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N516MC links to the rest of the register
- Gulfstream G-IV (G400) 8 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
- Talon Air, LLC · charter operator
- Rolls-Royce TAY 611-8 56 aircraft with this engine series · 13,850 lb thrust
- Pjk Aviation LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Great Neck, NY 23 aircraft registered in this town
- New York 6,663 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Gulfstream G-IV (G400) 31 reports since 1995
- FAA orders naming the Rolls-Royce TAY 611-8 8 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Rolls-Royce TAY 611-8 213 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Seat Belt, missing · 2008-04-10
- Report filed on this aircraft: Duct, leaking · 2008-04-10
- Report filed on this aircraft: Filter, clogged · 2007-05-17
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N516MC.json.
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N516MC, 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 Pjk Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 11, 2018, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 23, 2018, 14 years after the 2004 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1531 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N516MC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 747-243B (serial 22507, cancelled June 6, 2011). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
1 NTSB record under N516MC: Incident on July 17, 2006 at Amsterdam: no injuries, minor damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 747-200F · operated under 121
On July 16, 2006, at 1424 coordinated universal time, a Boeing 747-200F, N516MC, operated by Atlas Air, sufferend minor damage when the left main body gear tires burst during takeoff from runway 36L at Amsterdam/Schiphol Airport (EHAM). The airplane returned to the airport and landed on runway 06. The damaged flap system caused a flap asymmetry and roll movement. The fuselage was damaged by the wheel and tire fragments. The 3 crew members were not injured. The accident investigation is under the jurisdiction and control of the Dutch government. Any further information may be obtained from: …
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data