Embraer Executive Aircraft Inc EMB-500
N959BZ is an Embraer Executive Aircraft Inc EMB-500, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2018. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Elevate US LLC, an LLC in Helena, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 18, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 7, 2018.
Where is it now Last seen Wednesday at 2:29 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Embraer Executive Aircraft Inc
- Model
- EMB-500 · all EMB-500s 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 Embraer EMB-500 Phenom 100 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
- 50000393
- 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 · P&W Canada PW617F1-E · 1,891 lb thrust
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- AD5647 (octal 53253107)
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 18, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 21, 2025
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 7, 2018
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01271178
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Elevate US 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
- 415 N Benton Ave
Helena, MT 59601-5041
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N959BZ links to the rest of the register
- Embraer EMB-500 Phenom 100 221 registered
- Embraer Executive Aircraft Inc 608 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PW617F1-E 36 aircraft with this engine series · 1,891 lb thrust
- Elevate US LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Helena, MT 534 aircraft registered in this town
- Helena Regional · HLN
- Montana 6,041 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Embraer EMB-500 Phenom 100 13 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Embraer EMB-500 Phenom 100 197 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Embraer EMB-500 Phenom 100 26 supplemental type certificates
- Where N959BZ is now · Last seen Wednesday at 2:29 pm.
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The public federal record on N959BZ, 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 Elevate US LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 18, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 7, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 50000393 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N959BZ 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 N959BZ. 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 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 13, 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 13, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data