Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV
N878SM is a Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1997. It has 22 seats. It is registered to World Heir INC, a corporation in College Park, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 23, 2020 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated September 20, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gulfstream Aerospace
- Model
- G-IV · all G-IVs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1319
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Rolls-Royc TAY 611SER · 12,450 lb thrust
- Seats
- 22
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- AC15AA (octal 53012652)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 23, 2020
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · September 20, 1997
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00176441
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- World Heir INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2500 Burdett Rd
College Park, GA 30349-4208
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N878SM, 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 World Heir INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 23, 2020, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated September 20, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1319 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N878SM 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 N878SM. 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