Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV
N85GC is a Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1991. It has 22 seats. It is registered to 4Lions LLC, an LLC in Chula Vista, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 15, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 10, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gulfstream Aerospace
- Model
- G-IV · all G-IVs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1161
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Rolls-Royc TAY 611SER · 12,450 lb thrust
- Seats
- 22
- Year built
- 1991
- Transponder code
- ABA598 (octal 52722630)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 15, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 10, 2016
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00375680
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- 4Lions LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2933 Babbling Brook Rd
Chula Vista, CA 91914-4305
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N85GC, 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 4Lions LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 15, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 10, 2016, 25 years after the 1991 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 1161 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N85GC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-31T (serial 31T8120009, cancelled August 30, 2013). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N85GC. 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