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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Canadair Ltd CF-5D
N820FC is a Canadair Ltd CF-5D, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1971. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Ssbm LLC, an LLC in Phoenix, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 23, 2017 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated January 28, 2025.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Canadair Ltd
- Model
- CF-5D · all CF-5Ds 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 CF-5 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
- 116823
- 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
- TurbojetFAA type of engine code 4 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 4 motors · Orenda J85-CAN-15 · 4,300 lb thrust
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1971
- Transponder code
- AB315B (octal 52630533)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 23, 2017
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Research and developmentFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 28, 2025
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01252601
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ssbm 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
- 1825 W Knudsen Dr Ste 100B
Phoenix, AZ 85027-2190
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N820FC links to the rest of the register
- Bombardier CF-5 17 registered
- Canadair Ltd 210 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Orenda J85-CAN-15 5 aircraft with this engine series · 4,300 lb thrust
- Ssbm LLC 11 aircraft in the fleet
- Phoenix, AZ 993 aircraft registered in this town
- Mesa Gateway Airport · IWA
- Phoenix Deer Valley Airport · DVT
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International · PHX
- Arizona 8,410 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N820FC, 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 Ssbm LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 23, 2017, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 28, 2025, 54 years after the 1971 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 116823 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N820FC 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 N820FC. 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