{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1994-01-27","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-07-29","city":"SAINT PETERSBURG","country_code":"US","county_code":"103","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"54561","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"ROLLS-ROYC","engine_model":"TAY 611SER","engine_thrust_lb":12450,"expiration_date":"2033-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"business-jets","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-07-29","maker":"Gulfstream Aerospace","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3980115","mode_s_code":"51303356","mode_s_hex":"A586EE","model":"G-IV","n_number":"N455Z","name":"SPARTA AVIATION GROUP LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N455Z is a Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1994. It has 22 seats. It is registered to Sparta Aviation Group LLC, an LLC in Saint Petersburg, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 29, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated January 27, 1994.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Sparta Aviation Group LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 29, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for transport, dated January 27, 1994, consistent with the 1994 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1235 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N455Z was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Sikorsky S-55B (serial 55-577, cancelled July 7, 1977). 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 N455Z. 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":22,"serial_number":"1235","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"FL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"7901 4TH ST N STE 300","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turbofan","type_engine_code":"5","unique_id":"00714472","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N455Z","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1994,"zip":"337024399"}