Bombardier Inc BD-100-1A10
N985KM is a Bombardier Inc BD-100-1A10, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2006. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Jfm Aviation LLC, an LLC in Raleigh, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 12, 2020 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated June 5, 2007.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Flightgest Aviation, LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 11:55 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bombardier Inc
- Model
- BD-100-1A10 · all BD-100-1A10s 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-100 Challenger 300 and 350 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
- 20134
- 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 · Honeywell AS907-1-1A · 6,944 lb thrust
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- ADBEA4 (octal 53337244)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 12, 2020
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- 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 5, 2007
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00362549
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jfm Aviation 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
- 4208 Six Forks Rd Ste 1700
Raleigh, NC 27609-5734
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 N985KM links to the rest of the register
- Bombardier BD-100 Challenger 300 and 350 883 registered
- Bombardier Inc 3,042 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Flightgest Aviation, LLC · charter operator
- Honeywell AS907-1-1A 364 aircraft with this engine series · 6,944 lb thrust
- Type certificate T00005NY · held by Bombardier INC
- Jfm Aviation LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Raleigh, NC 350 aircraft registered in this town
- Southern Wake Regional · 5W5
- North Carolina 7,126 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bombardier BD-100 Challenger 300 and 350 60 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bombardier BD-100 Challenger 300 and 350 1,851 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bombardier BD-100 Challenger 300 and 350 140 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Honeywell AS907-1-1A 4 airworthiness directives
- Report filed on this aircraft: Oxygen Mask, leaking · 2024-07-23
- Report filed on this aircraft: Moisture Trap, cracked · 2021-06-22
- Report filed on this aircraft: Pitot Head, obstructed · 2021-06-17
- Where N985KM is now · Last seen yesterday at 11:55 am.
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The public federal record on N985KM, 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 Jfm Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 12, 2020, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated June 5, 2007, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 20134 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N985KM 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 N985KM. 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 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 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 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data