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A Gulfstream GVII-G500, the same model family as N531GD
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N531GD

Gulfstream Aerospace Corp GVII-G500

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes

N531GD is a Gulfstream Aerospace Corp GVII-G500, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2023. It has 9 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 30, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated November 30, 2023.

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Aircraft

Maker
Gulfstream Aerospace Corp
Model
GVII-G500 · all GVII-G500s 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 Gulfstream GVII-G500 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
72131
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 PW814GA · 6,296 lb thrust
Seats
9
Year built
2023
Transponder code
A6B4BE (octal 51532276)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
May 30, 2024
Expires
May 31, 2031
Last FAA action
May 30, 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 · November 30, 2023
FAA region
—
Ownership
Fractional
FAA record id
01394580

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Withheld at the owner's request
Type
Non-citizen co-ownedFAA type of owner code 9 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address

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 N531GD links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
  • Pratt & Whitney Canada PW814GA 173 aircraft with this engine series · 6,296 lb thrust
  • Type certificate T00021AT · held by Gulfstream Aerospace CORP
Airworthiness

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N531GD.json.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N531GD, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, a non-citizen co-owned, certificate issued May 30, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. Fractional ownership is recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated November 30, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 72131 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N531GD 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 N531GD. 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