Bombardier Inc BD-700-1A10
N898M is a Bombardier Inc BD-700-1A10, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2024. It has 23 seats. It is registered to Department of the Air Force, a government body in Bedford, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 10, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated September 9, 2025.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bombardier Inc
- Model
- BD-700-1A10 · all BD-700-1A10s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. This is how the Bombardier BD-700 Global Express, 5000 and 6000 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
- 60156
- 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 BR700-710A220 · 14,750 lb thrust
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 23
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- AC641F (octal 53062037)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 10, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 10, 2026
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Research and developmentFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 9, 2025
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01475154
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Department of the Air Force
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 5 Eglin St Bldg 1624
Bedford, MA 01731-2100
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 4
Connections how N898M links to the rest of the register
- Bombardier BD-700 Global Express, 5000 and 6000 661 registered
- Bombardier Inc 3,043 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rolls-Royce Deutschland BR700-710A220 274 aircraft with this engine series · 14,750 lb thrust
- Department Of The Air Force 9 aircraft in the fleet
- Bedford, MA 26 aircraft registered in this town
- Laurence G Hanscom Field · BED
- Massachusetts 2,646 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bombardier BD-700 Global Express, 5000 and 6000 89 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bombardier BD-700 Global Express, 5000 and 6000 566 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bombardier BD-700 Global Express, 5000 and 6000 463 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Rolls-Royce Deutschland BR700-710A220 15 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N898M, 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 Department of the Air Force, a government body, certificate issued April 10, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for research and development, dated September 9, 2025, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 60156 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N898M was previously assigned to 4 other aircraft: Raytheon Aircraft Company G36 (serial E-3764, cancelled October 6, 2009); Miller James HELISPORT CH7 (serial 60, cancelled June 22, 2006); Henriques Ricardo A HELISPORT CH 7 (serial 60, cancelled December 20, 2005). 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 N898M. 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 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data