The U.S. aircraft register, updated daily
A Gulfstream GV-SP (G550), the same model family as N890DA
A Gulfstream GV-SP (G550) like this one, not N890DA itself. Photo: Wo st 01 (There are 682 Pictures in my Category) See also Toolserver, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons. Pictures of N890DA itself may be on Planespotters · JetPhotos · Airliners.net. Operator or owner? Send your own picture.
Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 4, 2026
N890DA

Gulfstream Aerospace GV-SP (G550)

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesDelaware

N890DA is a Gulfstream Aerospace GV-SP (G550), a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2005. It has 20 seats. It is registered to Cite Aviation LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 6, 2021 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated June 29, 2005.

Where is it now checking the live feed…

Checking the volunteer receiver network for a recent position…

Aircraft broadcast their own position; volunteer receivers pool what they hear. Owners who have asked the FAA not to be displayed are not shown.

Flight history: where it flew in the last seven days · follow it on the live map

Aircraft

Maker
Gulfstream Aerospace
Model
GV-SP (G550) · all GV-SP (G550)s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The 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
5079
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-Royc BR 700 SERIES · 14,750 lb thrust
Fuel
Jet A
Seats
20
Year built
2005
Transponder code
AC45A0 (octal 53042640)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
December 6, 2021
Expires
December 31, 2028
Last FAA action
July 1, 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 · June 29, 2005
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00153019

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Cite Aviation 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
1209 N Orange St
Wilmington, DE 19801-1120

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 N890DA links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N890DA.json.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N890DA, 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 Cite Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 6, 2021, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated June 29, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5079 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N890DA 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N890DA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data