Gulfstream Aerospace Corp GVII-G500
N73ME is a Gulfstream Aerospace Corp GVII-G500, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2025. It has 9 seats. It is registered to Mountain-Elkhorn II LLC, an LLC in Lexington, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 21, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated July 18, 2025.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Gulfstream Aerospace Corp
- Model
- GVII-G500 · all GVII-G500s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA 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
- 72171
- 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
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A9C9CA (octal 52344712)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 21, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- April 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 · July 18, 2025
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01442971
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mountain-Elkhorn II 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
- 3009 Atkinson Ave Ste 400
Lexington, KY 40509-2495
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N73ME links to the rest of the register
- Gulfstream GVII-G500 223 registered
- Gulfstream Aerospace Corp 1,090 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PW814GA 173 aircraft with this engine series · 6,296 lb thrust
- Type certificate T00021AT · held by Gulfstream Aerospace CORP
- Mountain-Elkhorn II LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Lexington, KY 195 aircraft registered in this town
- Blue Grass Airport · LEX
- Kentucky 2,985 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Gulfstream GVII-G500 12 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Gulfstream GVII-G500 1 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Gulfstream GVII-G500 10 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N73ME, 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 Mountain-Elkhorn II LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 21, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated July 18, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 72171 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N73ME according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N73ME. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data