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A Embraer EMB-505 Phenom 300, the same model family as N517TX
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N517TX

Embraer Executive Aircraft Inc EMB-505

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesMontana

N517TX is an Embraer Executive Aircraft Inc EMB-505, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2023. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Transmedics INC, a corporation in Belgrade, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 30, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for commuter, dated March 1, 2023.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Summit 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
Embraer Executive Aircraft Inc
Model
EMB-505 · all EMB-505s 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. 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
50500715
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
Seats
8
Year built
2023
Transponder code
A67D2F (octal 51476457)

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 30, 2023
Expires
October 31, 2030
Last FAA action
July 9, 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 · CommuterFAA certificate purpose code C (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 1, 2023
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01391357

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Transmedics 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
C/O Summit Aviation
490 Wings Way
Belgrade, MT 59714-3557

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 N517TX links to the rest of the register

Design
Flies for
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Belgrade, MT 182 aircraft registered in this town
  • Montana 6,037 aircraft registered

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N517TX.json.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N517TX, 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 Transmedics INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 30, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for commuter, dated March 1, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 50500715 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N517TX 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N517TX. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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