{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2025-05-29","airworthiness_ops":"Research and development","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2008-09-16","city":"WILMINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"003","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"54069","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"ROLLS-ROYC","engine_model":"SPEY 511-8","engine_thrust_lb":11400,"expiration_date":"2028-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"business-jets","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-09-08","maker":"Gulfstream Aerospace","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3980110","mode_s_code":"50202607","mode_s_hex":"A10587","model":"G1159B","n_number":"N165PA","name":"RCA LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N165PA is a Gulfstream Aerospace G1159B, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1969. It has 22 seats. It is registered to Rca LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 16, 2008 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated May 29, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Rca LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 16, 2008, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 29, 2025, 56 years after the 1969 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 775 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N165PA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Grumman G-159 (serial 119, cancelled March 8, 2007). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N165PA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":22,"serial_number":"775","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"DE","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1000 N WEST ST STE 1500","street2":"PO BOX 1680","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turbojet","type_engine_code":"4","unique_id":"00512100","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N165PA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1969,"zip":"198991680"}