{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2016-05-13","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2016-05-13","city":"NEWPORT BEACH","country_code":"US","county_code":"059","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Loan or lien (security agreement)","doc_type_code":"S/A","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-23"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"30069","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"GE","engine_model":"CF34-3B","engine_thrust_lb":9220,"expiration_date":"2029-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"business-jets","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-05-20","maker":"Bombardier Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BOMBARDIER INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1390009","mode_s_code":"50435476","mode_s_hex":"A23B3E","model":"CL-600-2B16","n_number":"N243BA","name":"BUSH AVIATION LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N243BA is a Bombardier Inc CL-600-2B16, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1999. It has 22 seats. It is registered to Bush Aviation LLC, an LLC in Newport Beach, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 13, 2016 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 13, 2016. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Bush Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 13, 2016, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 13, 2016, 17 years after the 1999 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 5401 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N243BA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 747SR-100 (serial 22294, cancelled January 6, 2005). 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":"1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 23, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N243BA. 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":22,"serial_number":"5401","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3501 JAMBOREE RD STE 6100","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turbofan","type_engine_code":"5","unique_id":"00253617","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N243BA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1999,"zip":"926602959"}