Bombardier Inc BD-700-1A10
N970BA is a Bombardier Inc BD-700-1A10, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2004. It has 23 seats. It is registered to Learjet INC, a non-citizen corporation in Wichita, Kansas. The FAA lists the registration as "non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports" (certificate issued October 9, 2024). It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated June 22, 2024.
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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
- 9146
- 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
- Seats
- 23
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- AD83BF (octal 53301677)
Registration
- Status
- Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reportsFAA registration status code N (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 9, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- September 11, 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 · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 22, 2024
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01447906
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Learjet INC
- Type
- Non-citizen corporationFAA type of owner code 8 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1 Learjet Way
Wichita, KS 67209-2924
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N970BA links to the rest of the register
- Bombardier BD-700 Global Express, 5000 and 6000 659 registered
- Bombardier Inc 3,037 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 BR 700 series 345 aircraft with this engine series · 14,750 lb thrust
- Learjet INC 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · expired
- Wichita, KS 1,310 aircraft registered in this town
- Beech Factory Airport · BEC
- Wichita Dwight D Eisenhower Ntl Airport · ICT
- Cessna Acft Field · CEA
- Colonel James Jabara Airport · AAO
- 2 more landing places in town
- Kansas 5,736 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 562 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bombardier BD-700 Global Express, 5000 and 6000 462 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Rolls-Royce BR 700 series 811 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N970BA, 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 "Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports". 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 June 22, 2024, 20 years after the 2004 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 9146 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N970BA 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 N970BA. 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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data