Bombardier Inc CL-600-2B16
N546BA is a Bombardier Inc CL-600-2B16, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines. It has 22 seats. It is registered to Boeing CO, a corporation in Gary, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 15, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Where is it now Last seen Sunday at 8:54 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bombardier Inc
- Model
- CL-600-2B16 · all CL-600-2B16s 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 Bombardier CL-600 Challenger and CRJ 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
- 6234
- 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
- Seats
- 22
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A6EE50 (octal 51567120)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 15, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 15, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01505484
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Boeing CO
- 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
- 6309 Airport Rd
Gary, IN 46406
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 N546BA links to the rest of the register
- Bombardier CL-600 Challenger and CRJ 1,654 registered
- Bombardier Inc 3,038 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Boeing CO 190 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to September 2, 2027
- Gary, IN 22 aircraft registered in this town
- Indiana 5,694 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bombardier CL-600 Challenger and CRJ 486 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bombardier CL-600 Challenger and CRJ 179,671 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bombardier CL-600 Challenger and CRJ 1,583 supplemental type certificates
- Where N546BA is now · Last seen Sunday at 8:54 pm.
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The public federal record on N546BA, 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 Boeing CO, a corporation, certificate issued June 15, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6234 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N546BA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-31-310 (serial 31709, cancelled April 29, 1983). 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 N546BA: Accident on January 5, 1982 at Ithaca, NY: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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: Piper PA-31 · operated under 135
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data
