Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV
N605RA is a Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1987. It has 22 seats. It is registered to Smb G-Iv Vii LLC, an LLC in Longwood, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 23, 2019 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated October 9, 1987.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gulfstream Aerospace
- Model
- G-IV · all G-IVs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1028
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Rolls-Royc TAY MK 610-8 · 12,420 lb thrust
- Seats
- 22
- Year built
- 1987
- Transponder code
- A7DB4A (octal 51755512)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 23, 2019
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · October 9, 1987
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00945450
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smb G-Iv Vii LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2104 Lakehaven Pt
Longwood, FL 32779-3202
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N605RA, 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 Smb G-Iv Vii LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 23, 2019, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated October 9, 1987, consistent with the 1987 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1028 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N605RA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Grumman G-1159 (serial 57, cancelled March 25, 2013); Aerospatiale SA316B ALOUETTE III (serial 1165, cancelled May 22, 2007). 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 N605RA: Accident on August 27, 1998 at Porterville, CA: no injuries, substantial 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: Aerospatiale SA316B · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain adequate in-flight clearance between the bucket and trees resulting in the entanglement/separation of the long line and subsequent impact with and separation of the tail rotor assembly. A factor was the trees.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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