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Gulfstream Aerospace GV-SP
N878DB is a Gulfstream Aerospace GV-SP, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2007. It has 20 seats. It is registered to Thorondor LLC, an LLC in Palo Alto, California. The FAA lists the registration as "first notice for registration renewal" (certificate issued April 11, 2014). It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated April 11, 2014.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Gulfstream Aerospace
- Model
- GV-SP · all GV-SPs 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 Gulfstream GV-SP G550 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
- 5167
- 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 · Rolls Deut BR700-710C411 · 15,385 lb thrust
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 20
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- AC145B (octal 53012133)
Registration
- Status
- First notice for registration renewalFAA registration status code 25 (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 11, 2014
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- 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 · April 11, 2014
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00328079
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thorondor 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
- C/O Apercen Partners LLC
314 Lytton Ave
Palo Alto, CA 94301-1430
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.
Connections how N878DB links to the rest of the register
- Gulfstream GV-SP G550 7 registered
- Gulfstream Aerospace 1,223 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rolls-Royce Deutschland BR700-710C411 292 aircraft with this engine series · 15,385 lb thrust
- Thorondor LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Palo Alto, CA 183 aircraft registered in this town
- Palo Alto Airport · PAO
- California 28,279 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Gulfstream GV-SP G550 24 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Gulfstream GV-SP G550 26 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Gulfstream GV-SP G550 487 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Rolls-Royce Deutschland BR700-710C411 10 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N878DB, 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.
Registration status is "First notice for registration renewal". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 11, 2014, 7 years after the 2007 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 5167 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N878DB 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 N878DB. 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 November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data