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N840KB

Gulfstream Aerospace 840

N840KB is a Gulfstream Aerospace 840, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1980. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Orion Aerial LLC, an LLC in Grass Valley, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 17, 2019 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 1, 2001.

Aircraft

Maker
Gulfstream Aerospace
Model
840
Serial number
11640
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turboprop, 2 motors · Airesearch TPE331 SERIES · 904 hp
Seats
11
Year built
1980
Transponder code
AB80BC (octal 52700274)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 17, 2019
Expires
June 30, 2029
Last FAA action
August 11, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · August 1, 2001
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00725850

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Orion Aerial LLC
Type
LLC
Address
15425 Beyers Ln
Grass Valley, CA 95949-7666

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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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N840KB, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Orion Aerial LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 17, 2019, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 1, 2001, 21 years after the 1980 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 11640 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N840KB according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N840KB: Accident on October 26, 2023 at Reno, NV: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

WPR24LA025Accident on October 26, 2023 at Reno, NV: serious injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Gulfstream Aerospace Commander 690C · operated under 091

The pilot applicant’s excessive nose down pitch, and the check pilot’s delayed remedial action, which resulted in an impact with terrain.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR24LA025 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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