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N542BJ

Joby Aviation JAS4-2

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N542BJ is a Joby Aviation JAS4-2, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor powered by electric motors, built in 2021. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Joby Aero INC, a corporation in Santa Cruz, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 1, 2021 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development, dated June 5, 2024.

Joby Aviation: Piloted electric air taxi, based in Santa Cruz, California

Aircraft

Maker
Joby Aviation (United States)
FAA spelling: JOBY AERO INC
Model
JAS4-2
Serial number
JAS4-202
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Electric, 6 motors
Seats
5
Year built
2021
Transponder code
A6DF7C (octal 51557574)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 1, 2021
Expires
March 31, 2028
Last FAA action
November 6, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Unmanned aircraft, research and development · June 5, 2024
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01333751

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Joby Aero INC
Type
Corporation
Address
333 Encinal St
Santa Cruz, CA 95060-2132

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Documents on file 0

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

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The public federal record on N542BJ, 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 Joby Aero INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 1, 2021, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 5, 2024, 3 years after the 2021 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial JAS4-202 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N542BJ 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 N542BJ. 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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data