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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026Hawker Beechcraft Corp 400A
N975BD is a Hawker Beechcraft Corp 400A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2008. It has 10 seats. It is registered to N971Ra LLC, an LLC in Santa Ana, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 23, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 24, 2008.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Hawker Beechcraft Corp
- Model
- 400A · all 400As 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 Beechcraft 400 Beechjet 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
- RK-553
- 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 JT15D-5R · 2,965 lb thrust
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- AD9655 (octal 53313125)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 23, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 23, 2026
- 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 24, 2008
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00437389
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- N971Ra 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
- 19301 Campus Dr Ste 150
Santa Ana, CA 92707-5235
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N975BD links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft 400 Beechjet 311 registered
- Hawker Beechcraft Corp 850 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney Canada JT15D-5R 42 aircraft with this engine series · 2,965 lb thrust
- N971Ra LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Santa Ana, CA 87 aircraft registered in this town
- John Wayne/Orange County · SNA
- California 27,658 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft 400 Beechjet 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft 400 Beechjet 1,793 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft 400 Beechjet 131 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada JT15D-5R 1 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N975BD, 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 N971Ra LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 23, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated March 24, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RK-553 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N975BD 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 N975BD. 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 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data