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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026Iai Ltd GULFSTREAM G280
N6872 is an Iai Ltd GULFSTREAM G280, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2012. It has 21 seats. It is registered to Sage Moon Air LLC, an LLC in Salt Lake City, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 6, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated February 3, 2020.
Where is it now Last seen Sunday at 5:54 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Iai Ltd
- Model
- GULFSTREAM G280 · all GULFSTREAM G280s 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 Iai Ltd GULFSTREAM G280 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
- 2010
- 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 · Honeywell AS907-2-1G · 7,765 lb thrust
- Seats
- 21
- Year built
- 2012
- Transponder code
- A91FD6 (octal 52217726)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 6, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 17, 2026
- 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 · February 3, 2020
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01098096
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sage Moon Air LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 95 S State St Ste 2300
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
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
Connections how N6872 links to the rest of the register
- Iai Ltd GULFSTREAM G280 293 registered
- Iai Ltd 322 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Honeywell AS907-2-1G 267 aircraft with this engine series · 7,765 lb thrust
- Sage Moon Air LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Salt Lake City, UT 2,937 aircraft registered in this town
- Salt Lake City International · SLC
- South Valley Regional · SVR
- Utah 8,362 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Iai Ltd GULFSTREAM G280 8 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Iai Ltd GULFSTREAM G280 12 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Honeywell AS907-2-1G 2 airworthiness directives
- Where N6872 is now · Last seen Sunday at 5:54 pm.
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The public federal record on N6872, 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 Sage Moon Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 6, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 3, 2020, 8 years after the 2012 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2010 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6872 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Wsk Pzl Mielec M-18A (serial 1Z019-05, cancelled May 13, 2015); Sud Aviation SA316B ALOUETTE III (serial 1680, cancelled November 25, 1975). 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 N6872: Accident on April 13, 1997 at Sinton, TX: 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: Pzl-Mielec M-18A · operated under 091
Fuel starvation resulting from the failure of the engine driven fuel pump due to an undetermined reason. A factor was the soft terrain.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data