Gulfstream Aerospace G-V
N996GA is a Gulfstream Aerospace G-V, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2000. It has 20 seats. It is registered to Ab Jet CO IV LLC, an LLC in Metairie, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 30, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated September 29, 2000.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Hera Flight, 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 October 17 at 7:19 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Gulfstream Aerospace
- Model
- G-V · all G-Vs 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-V Gulfstream V 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
- 596
- 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 · Bmw Rolls BR 700 SERIES · 14,970 lb thrust
- Seats
- 20
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- ADE984 (octal 53364604)
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 30, 2024
- Expires
- December 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- September 12, 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 · September 29, 2000
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00285662
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ab Jet CO IV 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
- 3838 N Causeway Blvd Ste 3335
Metairie, LA 70002-8361
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N996GA links to the rest of the register
- Gulfstream G-V Gulfstream V 153 registered
- Gulfstream Aerospace 1,224 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Hera Flight, LLC · charter operator
- BMW Rolls-Royce BR 700 series 163 aircraft with this engine series · 14,970 lb thrust
- Ab Jet CO IV LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Metairie, LA 150 aircraft registered in this town
- Louisiana 3,733 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Gulfstream G-V Gulfstream V 27 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Gulfstream G-V Gulfstream V 145 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Gulfstream G-V Gulfstream V 289 supplemental type certificates
- Where N996GA is now · Last seen October 17 at 7:19 pm.
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The public federal record on N996GA, 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 Ab Jet CO IV LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 30, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated September 29, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 596 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N996GA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Israel Aircraft Industries GULFSTREAM 100 (serial 156, cancelled December 8, 2005). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N996GA. 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