Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV
N78ET is a Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1993. It has 22 seats. It is registered to Steven Brothers Aviation LLC, an LLC in Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 24, 2021 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 29, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gulfstream Aerospace
- Model
- G-IV · all G-IVs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1217
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Rolls-Royc TAY 611SER · 12,450 lb thrust
- Seats
- 22
- Year built
- 1993
- Transponder code
- AA8EA3 (octal 52507243)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 24, 2021
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- August 19, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · March 29, 1993
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00844162
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Steven Brothers Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 7333 E Kellogg Dr
Wichita, KS 67207-1605
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N78ET, 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 Steven Brothers Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 24, 2021, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated March 29, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1217 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N78ET 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 N78ET. 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 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