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Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV
N972MS is a Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1996. It has 22 seats. It is registered to Glf4 1285 LLC, an LLC in Raleigh, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 26, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 1, 1996.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Execuflight INC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Gulfstream Aerospace
- Model
- G-IV · all G-IVs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Gulfstream G-IV Gulfstream IV 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
- 1285
- 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
- Seats
- 22
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- AD8C37 (octal 53306067)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 26, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 26, 2024
- 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 · March 1, 1996
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00975691
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Glf4 1285 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
- 4030 Wake Forest Rd Ste 349
Raleigh, NC 27609-0010
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 N972MS links to the rest of the register
- Gulfstream G-IV Gulfstream IV 357 registered
- Gulfstream Aerospace 1,225 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Execuflight INC · charter operator
- Glf4 1285 LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Raleigh, NC 351 aircraft registered in this town
- Southern Wake Regional · 5W5
- North Carolina 7,120 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Gulfstream G-IV Gulfstream IV 40 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Gulfstream G-IV Gulfstream IV 841 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Gulfstream G-IV Gulfstream IV 686 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bearing, loose · 2008-10-22
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The public federal record on N972MS, 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 Glf4 1285 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 26, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated March 1, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1285 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N972MS 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 N972MS. 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 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data